Pyongyang, February 17 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un received congratulatory messages from organizations and bodies of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) on the occasion of the greatest auspicious February holiday of the nation.

The congratulatory messages came from the Standing Council of the Korean Federation of Workers in Commerce in Japan, the Central Standing Committee of the Korean Youth League in Japan, the Central Standing Committee of the Union of Democratic Korean Women in Japan, the Central Standing Management Board of the Korean Youth Commercial Association in Japan, the Central Standing Committee of the Union of Korean Teachers and School Clerks in Japan, the Central Standing Council of the Korean Educationists Association in Japan, the Central Standing Council of the Korean Scientists and Technologists Association in Japan, the Central Standing Council of the Korean Social Scientists Association in Japan, the Standing Council of the Korean Sportsmen's Federation in Japan, the Central Standing Committee of the Union of Korean Writers and Artists in Japan, the Central Standing Council of the Korean Health Workers Association in Japan, the Central Standing Committee of the Union of Korean Students in Japan, the Central Standing Council of the Korean Human Rights Association in Japan and other central organizations and affiliated organizations under Chongryon, the Choson Sinbo Company, the Korean News Service, the Hagu Bookshop, the Kumgang-san Opera Troupe, the Tonghae Commercial Company, Inc., the Kumgang Insurance Company, the Committee for Promoting Korea-Japan Economic Exchange and other affiliates, regional headquarters of Chongryon and Korean University and other Korean schools in Japan.

The messages paid the highest tribute to Chairman Kim Jong Il, the eternal sun of Juche Korea, reflecting the ardent yearning and boundless reverence of all the Chongryon officials and Koreans in Japan on the occasion of the significant February holiday and extended the highest glory and warmest congratulations to Kim Jong Un who is bringing about epochal events in building a powerful socialist country to translate the Chairman's patriotic desire into a brilliant reality.

They said that Kim Jong Il was the peerless patriot who devoted all his life to the prosperity of the country and the happiness of its people and the tender-hearted father of all the Chongryon officials and Koreans in Japan as he showed all kinds of love and benevolence for their happiness.

They expressed the will to make a substantial development in the struggle for opening up a new heyday of the movement of Koreans in Japan, under the bright blueprint for the prosperity of Chongryon unfolded by Kim Jong Un, and thus surely bring the admirable achievements. -0-