North Korea's Rodong Sinmun on Monday "warmly welcomed" Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to North Korea, stressing that "the relations between Korea and China (North Korea and China) are an invincible friendly relationship firmly bound by comradely friendship and blood ties through a protracted struggle to oppose foreign invaders and build socialism."
In an editorial that day, Rodong Sinmun wrote that "ceaselessly strengthening the Korea-China friendly relations, with socialism at their core, is the firm will and stance of our Party, government, and people."
