Politics

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 message of greeting from Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the Republic of Cuba, on September 9.

The Cuban president in the message extended warmest congratulations on behalf of the Communist Party of Cuba and its people to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un on the occasion of the 76th founding anniversary of the DPRK.

We are attaching great importance to the relations with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea based on the fraternal and historic bonds of mutual respect and support, he said.

He reaffirmed the will to steadily strengthen the close ties of friendship, cooperation and solidarity between the two countries provided by President Kim Il Sung and Supreme Commander Fidel Castro Ruz.