Pyongyang, December 25 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea Tuesday received a message of condolences from Francois Ngarambe, general secretary of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, on the demise of leader Kim Jong Il.

In the message, he, on behalf of the National Executive Committee of the Front and on his own, expressed heartfelt sympathy and deep condolences to all members of the WPK.

The demise of Kim Jong Il is a great loss not only to the Korean people but to the world people, he stressed.