Pyongyang, December 25 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea, received a condolence message from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Saturday.

The president in his message said he could not repress grief at the news that HE Kim Jong Il, the great leader of the DPRK, passed away.

Expressing condolences to Kim Jong Un and to the government and people of the DPRK, the message wished him good health and success in his work and the government and people of the DPRK prosperity and glory.