Pyongyang, June 29 (KCNA) -- Figures of different countries sent congratulatory messages and letters on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il's start of work at the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea. In those messages and letters, they highly praised Party-building exploits of the peerlessly great man.

The chairman of the Ostfold County Committee of the Communist Party of Norway said that it is the brilliant fruit of the outstanding leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Il that the WPK can demonstrate its might as the most powerful guiding force in the world amid the absolute support and trust of the people.

The chairman of the Finnish Communists' League and the head of the Secretariat of the Asia-Pacific Regional Committee for Friendship and Solidarity with the Korean People said that it is the distinguished feats performed by Kim Jong Il in the history of building the Juche-based party that he turned the WPK into a party of the leader in which the uniqueness and continuity of ideology and leadership was firmly ensured.

The national leader of the Workers' Party of Mexico and the chairman of the Sweden-Korea Friendship Association praised Kim Jong Il as an outstanding revolutionary and an elder statesman of the world who wisely led the WPK to defend the sovereignty of the country and lay a foundation for the eternal prosperity of the nation.

The chairman of the Central Council of the People Unity-"Kyrgyz El" Republican Political Party and the chairman of the Denmark-DPRK Friendship Association lauded the decades-long history of leadership over the WPK by Kim Jong Il who pioneered the building of a motherly party by most perfectly realizing the single-minded unity of the Party and the masses of the people for the first time in history.

The chairman of the Permanent Standing Committee of the Belarus Association of Friends of Korean People Named after Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, the chairman of the Belarus Association for the Study of Juche Idea, the chairman of the Bangladesh Jatiya Party and the chairman of the Sri Lanka Society for Self-Reliance Studies stressed that the credit for the DPRK's dignity, prestige and current eye-opening successes goes to Kim Jong Il's party-building exploits.

They said that the WPK is demonstrating its absolute power as a ruling party and its guiding power thanks to the outstanding ideology and leadership of the respected Comrade

Kim Jong Un, expressing belief that it would further put the dignity and honor of the country and people on the higher eminence of the century. -0-