The message said:

Respected Your Excellency Chairman,

Please accept my heartfelt congratulations to you on your birthday.

I am convinced that the multifaceted relations between Russia and the DPRK based on the treaty of friendship, good neighborliness and cooperation concluded on Feb. 9, 2000, will in the future, too, develop in conformity with the interests of the two peoples and contribute to strengthening the stability and security in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia.

Your Excellency Kim Jong Il,

I wish good health and success to you and peace and wellbeing to the Korean people.

With my regards.