{"id":1172,"date":"2021-10-01T06:04:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T06:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2021-10-01T06:04:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T06:04:54","slug":"north-korea-leader-says-pyongyang-support-china-against-hostile-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/world\/north-korea-leader-says-pyongyang-support-china-against-hostile-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea leader says Pyongyang support China against \u2018hostile forces\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PYONGYANG, Oct 1 (Asia Free Press): North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Friday pledged support for China&#8217;s fight against &#8220;hostile forces&#8217; frantic anti-China confrontational moves\u201d, state-run media reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in a message he sent to Chinese President Xi Jinping to celebrate the 72nd founding anniversary of the ally, Kim expressed belief that the Chinese nation&#8217;s dream of rejuvenation will surely come true as there are the socialist idea with the Chinese characteristics for the new times,&#8221; the Korean Central News Agency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe WPK, the DPRK government and people will firmly support the Chinese party, government and people in their just struggle to defeat the hostile forces&#8217; frantic anti-China confrontational moves and defend the sovereignty, right to development and territorial integrity of the country,\u201d the agency quoted as Kim saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kim was referring US and termed it as \u201chostile forces\u201d because of its anti-China policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that now the two parties and two countries demonstrate the comradely unity while strengthening the strategic and tactical cooperation in the common struggle for advancing the cause of socialism and defending the regional peace and stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, China urged the United States to leave its empty slogans and come up with realistic plan for dialogue with North Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said that North Korean justified and reasonable concerns need to be seriously addressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUnder the current circumstances, the key to breaking the deadlock on the Korean Peninsula and restarting dialogue is that North Korea\u2019s justified and reasonable concerns should be taken seriously and addressed,\u201d the Global Times quoted Hua as told reporters during routine press briefing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe US should not fall back on empty slogans calling for dialogue, but should demonstrate sincerity and come up with a realistic dialogue proposal,\u201d Hua said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PYONGYANG, Oct 1 (Asia Free Press): North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Friday pledged support for China&#8217;s fight against &#8220;hostile forces&#8217; frantic anti-China confrontational moves\u201d, state-run media reported. in a message he sent to Chinese President Xi Jinping to celebrate the 72nd founding anniversary of the ally, Kim expressed belief that the Chinese nation&#8217;s dream [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,396,6],"tags":[521,192,519,520,112,113,400,74],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-latest","category-world","tag-anti-china","tag-china","tag-hostile-forces","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-north-korea","tag-pyongyang","tag-support","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}