Pyongyang, September 24 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and supreme commander of the armed forces of the DPRK, received a message of greeting from Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, president of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, on Sept. 8.

The president in the message extended the warmest congratulations to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un on the national day of the DPRK, wishing the friendly Korean people greater progress and prosperity.

He expressed his will to strive to develop the cooperative relations between the two countries in conformity with the interests of the friendly peoples of the two countries. -0-