Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea, received messages of condolences from Cuautemoc Amezcua Dromundo, chairman of the C.C., the Socialist Popular Party of Mexico, and Alberto Anaya Gutierrez, coordinator of the National Coordinating Committee of the Workers' Party of Mexico, on Dec. 19.

The messages said that the sudden demise of leader Kim Jong Il means not only the greatest loss to the Korean revolution and the world socialist movement but the bitterest sorrow to the Korean people and the world progressives.

Kim Jong Il was the distinguished thinker and theoretician, peerlessly elder statesman and peerlessly illustrious commander of Songun as he led the Korean revolution and the world revolution along ever-victorious road with his gifted ideas and theories and extraordinary leadership, they noted.

His august name and immortal feats will always be remembered by mankind, they stressed.