Pyongyang, September 9 (KCNA) -- 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, received a congratulatory message from Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, president of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, September 3.

In the message, the president extended the warmest congratulations to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un and the DPRK people on behalf of the people and the government of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea and on his own behalf on the occasion of the 77th founding anniversary of the DPRK.

He reaffirmed the will to maintain and boost the good relations of friendship and cooperation between the peoples of the two countries, sincerely wishing the DPRK peace, progress and prosperity. -0-