Pyongyang, March 16 (KCNA) -- Kim Yo Jong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, issued the following press statement on March 16:

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, used the Russia-made private car sent by Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, president of the Russian Federation, as a gift on February 18 for the first time at an open event on Friday.

The special function of the private car is perfect and can be thoroughly trusted.

I am very pleased that the supreme leader of our Party and state uses the special private car sent by the head of state of Russia as a gift.

Kim Jong Un's using of the private car sent by the president of the Russian Federation as a gift is a clear proof of the DPRK-Russia friendship which is developing in a comprehensive way on a new high stage.

We send our heartfelt thanks to Moscow once again. -0-