Pyongyang, January 17 (KCNA) -- The international community is highly praising and admiring the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who has demonstrated the dignity and prestige of the powerful DPRK with his outstanding and tested leadership.

Personages of different countries, in their congratulatory messages and letters sent on the occasion of the New Year Juche 113 (2024), expressed admiration at the outstanding leadership of Kim Jong Un who glorified 2023 as a year of great turns and changes that made big strides in the development of the DPRK.

The national leader of the Workers' Party of Mexico said that last year the DPRK achieved proud successes in bolstering up the defence capability and improving the people's living standard.

All these are precious fruition brought by the extraordinary leadership of Comrade Kim Jong Un, he noted, adding that the Korean people will firmly defend the sovereignty and dignity of the country and peace and stability of the Korean peninsula in the new year, too.

The general secretary of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front, the chairman of the Ecuador-Guaranda Institute for Friendship and Cultural Solidarity with the Korean People and the chief of the Swiss Group for the Study of the Juche Idea said that the progressive mankind keenly realized once again the personality of Kim Jong Un as a great man, witnessing the miracles of the DPRK in 2023.

The chairman of the Pakistani Association for Self-Reliance Studies, the chairman of the Belarusian Association for the Study of the Juche Idea and the first secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Russia Lenin Young Communist League expressed belief that only glory would be always in store for the DPRK advancing toward a great new victory under the leadership of Kim Jong Un.

The vice-chairman of the Socialist Freedom Party of Egypt said that the eye-opening successes made by the DPRK in a severe environment caused by the imperialists' moves to isolate and stifle the DPRK are a historic miracle. The prestige and power of the DPRK will be further demonstrated in the new year, too, and its people's dreams and ideals will surely come true, as they are led by the greatest man in the world, he added.

The chairperson of the Party for Peace and Unity of Russia, the director general and the secretary general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea, the general secretary of the Syrian Arab Socialist Union Party and other personages expressed full support and solidarity with the struggle of the Workers' Party of Korea and the people of the DPRK writing a new history of overall state prosperity, saying the future of Juche Korea is immensely rosy thanks to His Excellency Kim Jong Un, the greatest man in the world. -0-