Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un received congratulatory messages and letters from different countries on the occasion of his election as the general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.

The messages and letters came from the general secretary of the C.C., Nepal Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), the chairman of the Bangladesh Jatiya Party, the chairperson of the FUNCINPEC Party of Cambodia, the general secretary of the Islamic Coalition Party of Iran, the chairman and the deputy secretary general of the National Leading Council of the Diversity Party of Indonesia, the general secretary of the National Council of the Communist Party of India, the general secretary of the C.C., All-India Forward Bloc, the general secretary of the C.C., Communist Party of India (Marxist), the general secretary of the Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist), the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, the chairman of the Socialist Political Party for Just Russia, the chairperson of the Party for Peace and Unity of Russia, the general secretary of the South West Africa People's Organizational Party of Namibia, the national chairman of the People's Progressive Party of Nigeria, the secretary general of the African National Congress of South Africa, the general secretary of the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea, the general secretary of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front, the national leader of the Workers' Party of Mexico, the general secretary of the C.C., People's Socialist Party of Mexico, and the national leader of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist).

Kim Jong Un also received congratulatory messages and letters from the senior leader of the Indian People's Party, the first vice-chairman of the Central Council of the Communist Parties-the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the secretary general of the International Kim Il Sung Prize Council and the International Kim Jong Il Prize Council, the vice director-general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea, the president of the International Group of Italy and the head of the Orchestra of the 21st Century of Russia, and other high-ranking officials of political, social and economic circles and representatives of Juche idea study organizations and organizations for friendship and solidarity with the Korean people in China, Russia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Singapore, Thailand, Pakistan, Denmark, Belarus, Switzerland, Sweden, Iceland, Italy, Nigeria, South Africa and Equatorial Guinea. -0-