The cards were sent to: President Hu Jintao, Vice-President Xi Jinping and Jiang Zemin of China, Fidel Castro Ruz, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, and Raul Castro Ruz, president of the Council of State and president of the Council of Ministers of Cuba, Dmitri Anatoliyevich Medvedev, president of Russia, Choummaly Saynasone, president of Laos and general secretary of the C.C., the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, Nong Duc Manh, general secretary of the C.C., the Communist Party of Vietnam, Michel Suleiman, president of Lebanon, Mohamed Nasheed, president of Maldives, Than Shwe, chairman of the Myanmar State Peace and Development Council, Nambariin Enkhbayar, president of Mongolia, Iajuddin Ahmed, president of Bangladesh, Bashar Al-Assad, president of Syria and regional secretary of the Arab Baath Socialist Party, Hun Sen, prime minister of Cambodia, King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand, Asif Ali Zar dari, president of Pakistan, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, president of Philippines, Emomali Rahmon, president of Tajikistan, Gurbankuli Berdimuhammedov, president of Turkmenistan, Serge Sarkissian, president of Armenia, Abdullah II, king of Jordan, Islam Karimov, president of Uzbekistan, Ali Abdullah Saleh, president of Yemen, Albert, king of Monaco, Aleksandr Lukashenko, president of Belarus, Stipe Mesic, president of Croatia, Filip Vujanovic, president of Montenegro, Blaise Compaore, president of Burkina Faso, James Alix Michel, president of Seychelles, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, president of Algeria, Girma Wolde-Giorgis, president of Ethiopia, Nicholas Liverpool, president of the Commonwealth of Dominica, George Maxwell Richard, president of Trinidad and Tobago, Sanjaageen Bayar, chairman of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, General Chairman Hadi Utomo and Secretary General Marzuki Alie of the Central Board of the Democrat Party of Indonesia, Prakash Karat, general secre tary of the C.C., the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Sergei Mironov, chairman of the Russian Federation Council and chairman of "A Just Russia", and Gennadi Andreyevich Zyuganov, chairman of the C.C., the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

His New Year's cards also went to the director-general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea who is secretary general of the "International Kim Il Sung Prize" Council, the secretary general of the United Nations, the chairman of the Committee of the African Union, the secretary general of the International Liaison Committee for Reunification and Peace in Korea, the mayors of Moscow and Khabarovsk and the governors of Khabarovsk Territory and Maritime Territory.