Pyongyang, September 26 (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, sent a reply message to Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, and Vo Van Thuong, president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, on September 21.

In the message, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un expressed his deep thanks to the general secretary and the president of Vietnam for extending warm congratulations on the occasion of the 75th birthday of the DPRK.

The message expressed belief that the traditional and comradely relations of friendship and cooperation between the two parties and the two countries, provided by the preceding leaders, would develop onto a new higher level in conformity with the aspiration and desire of the two peoples.

It wished the general secretary and the president of Vietnam bigger successes in their responsible work for leading the building of a developed and prosperous socialist state. -0-