North Korea and China are fighting the U.S. “military threat” together through “strategic cooperation,” DPRK leader Kim Jong Un reportedly said in a new note to Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The message was delivered to Xi in recent days to mark Sunday’s closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, according to the ruling party-run Rodong Sinmun on Tuesday.

The DPRK and China “are strengthening strategic cooperation and unity to destroy the undisguised hostile policy and military threat of the United States and its followers and defend and advance the common cause of socialism,” Kim reportedly said to Xi. 

“[Kim] expressed