north korea and china separately commemorate the 74th anniversary of their participation in the korean war...kim jong-un wreaths at the friendship tower

As relations between North Korea and China have been estranged amid close ties between North Korea and Russia, North Korea and China have separately celebrated the 74th anniversary of the Chinese military's participation in the Korean War this year, unlike previous years.

North Korea's Korean Central News Agency said Ri Il-hwan, a member of the Politburo and secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, sent a wreath of Kim Jong-un to the Wooi Tower with the phrase "I will remember the martyrs of the Chinese People's Support Army forever."

Kang Yoon-seok, vice chairman of the standing committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, Moon Sung-hyuk, vice chairman of the ruling Workers' Party, and Park Myung-ho, vice foreign minister, also laid a wreath at the Wooi Tower and held a memorial time.

The news agency reported that Chinese Ambassador to North Korea Wang Yajun also led embassy officials and others to calm the wreath at the Wooi Tower yesterday, announcing that the two events were held separately.

North Korea and China have been showing off their blood alliance by laying flowers together at the Friendship Tower on the anniversary of China's participation in the Korean War, and this year, the estranged relationship between the two countries has been revealed once again by holding a series of memorial events.