Pyongyang, March 28 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un sent a reply message to Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the People's Republic of China, on March 27.

The message said:

Esteemed Comrade Xi Jinping,

I express deep thanks to you for sending a warm congratulatory message to me on my reelection as president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea at the First Session of the 15th Supreme People's Assembly.

Through the congratulatory message, I could feel the invariable support and emotion of friendship of you and the Chinese party and government to me and our Party and government.

I am pleased to note that the traditional DPRK-China relations are being put on a new high stage in keeping with the aspiration and desire of the two parties and the peoples of the two countries according to the important agreement reached at the meeting with you in September last year.

Steadfast is the stand of our Party and government to continue to develop in depth the DPRK-China relations of friendship and cooperation with socialism as the core.

Being convinced that the Chinese people will make fresh progress in the course of comprehensively building a modern socialist state under the leadership of the Communist Party of China with you as its core, I wish you good health and bigger success in your responsible work. -0-