Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea, received Tuesday a message of condolences from President of Ethiopia Girma Wolde-Giorgis.

The message said:

On behalf of the people and government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, and that my own, I would like to express my profound sorrow at the death of H.E. Mr. Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army.

At this hour of mourning we express our heartfelt sympathy and deep condolences to the people and government of the DPRK.