Pyongyang, December 23 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea, received a condolatory message from S.M. Mironov, leader of A Just Russia, on December 21.

I, on behalf of A Just Russia and on my own behalf, express our deepest condolences on the sudden demise of leader Kim Jong Il, the message said, adding that he was the true leader of the Korean people.

It hoped that the Russian Federation and the DPRK would strengthen cooperation between the two peoples and work to ensure peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia, in the future, too.