Choe Ryong-hae, a high-ranking official of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, will attend China's Victory Day celebrations on September 3, vice Foreign Minister Zhang Ming said at a press conference on Tuesday.
Chinese veterans who fought in the Anti-Japanese War will receive 5,000 yuan (802.57 U.S. dollars) ahead of the 70th anniversary of victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression on Sept. 3.
The Chinese soldiers who fought in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953 will be remembered by history for their contribution to safeguarding peace, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping met here Monday with 15 Belarusian World War Two (WWII) veterans, calling for concerted international efforts to uphold the outcome of the war.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of arguably one of the greatest men in British history, Sir Winston Churchill.
Russia has received a positive signal from Pyongyang over top leader Kim Jong Un's Moscow trip for celebrations of the victory in World War II, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday.
Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou said on Monday that the island will hold a series of commemorations of victory over Japanese aggression.
More than 1,000 people were evacuated after a World War II bomb was found by construction workers who were digging an underground hotel structure near the Cosmo Hotel in Happy Valley on the Hong Kong Island on Thursday.
Russia will do everything it could to prevent the outbreak of possible new wars, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday.