Pyongyang, December 22 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea, received a message of condolences from Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, president of Equatorial Guinea and president of the African Union, on Tuesday.

The message said he, together with all the Equatorial Guinean people, expressed deepest condolences to Kim Jong Un upon hearing the sad news of demise of leader Kim Jong Il.