Pyongyang, January 1 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un sent a birthday spread to Hong So Hon, a researcher at Kim Chaek University of Technology, on his 80th birthday.

With a resolve to live up to the great trust and expectation of the Workers' Party of Korea which put forward him as a leading official of Kim Chaek University of Technology, he made a positive contribution to ensuring that the university successfully fulfils its mission and duty as a locomotive for the country's scientific education and economic construction, and is still devoting all its wisdom and enthusiasm to the scientific researches for the prosperity and development of the country.

He was honored with the Order of Kim Il Sung and has grown up as an academician, professor and doctor thanks to the special loving care of the peerlessly great men. He extended boundless thanks to Kim Jong Un, expressing deep emotion at the repeated benevolence of the Party. -0-