Pyongyang, March 26 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and supreme commander of the armed forces of the DPRK, received a congratulatory message from Daniel Ortega Saavedra and Rosario Murillo, co-presidents of the Republic of Nicaragua, on March 23.

The message said:

Dear Comrade,

As regards your reelection as president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, we extend the warmest congratulations to you on behalf of the national reconciliation and unity government and the people of Nicaragua and the Sandinist National Liberation Front and on our own behalf.

We also extend congratulations to the comrades elected as new-term members of the State Affairs Commission, the Standing Committee and the sectional committees of the Supreme People's Assembly and the Cabinet at the First Session of the 15th SPA of the DPRK.

We express belief that the fraternal DPRK people would continue to advance along the road of peace, prosperity, wellbeing, stability and economic development for the rising generations, true to your devoted leadership and lines.

Dear Comrade,

We reaffirm our invariable will to continue to maintain the close historic relations of fraternal friendship, solidarity and cooperation linking our two parties, two governments and two peoples in the struggle for freedom and independence, national sovereignty and the right to self-determination, together with you and the people of your country.

We wish you good health and your country prosperity, sending our fraternal and revolutionary embrace and warm greetings of the Nicaraguan families from blessed and eternally free Nicaragua. -0-