Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Sends Reply Message to Vietnamese President

Pyongyang, October 27 (KCNA) -- Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, sent a reply message to Comrade To Lam, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, on October 26.

The message said:

I express thanks to you for sending me heartfelt, warm congratulations on the occasion of the 78th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Expressing belief that the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries, which entered a new development period after our Pyongyang meeting last October, will further expand and develop in the common interests of the two peoples, I wish you good health and greater success in leading your party and state. -0-