Pyongyang, December 23 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea, Tuesday received messages of condolences from Bangladeshi party leaders. They are Garib Newaz, president of the Bangladesh People's League and chairman of the Bangladesh Self-Reliance Research Centre, Rashed Khan Menon, chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Bangladesh, Hasanul Huq Inu, chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Bangladesh National Socialist Party, and Dilip Barua, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist－Leninist).

In their messages they expressed deep condolences to Kim Jong Un and the WPK and the Korean people on behalf of their parties and on their own upon hearing the sad news that leader Kim Jong Il passed away to their great sorrow.