Pyongyang, December 25 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea, received a message of condolences from Ouk Phurik, president of the Khmer Democratic Party of Cambodia, on Dec. 22.

The message said:

Upon hearing the news that HE Marshal Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, passed away on a train on Dec. 17, 2011, all the members of the Khmer Democratic Party of Cambodia and I can hardly repress sorrow.

HE Marshal Kim Jong Il laid down the Songun line of the DPRK based on the philosophical principle that the army precisely means the people, the party and the state and led the DPRK for decades to successfully carry forward and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered by HE Generalissimo Kim Il Sung, great leader of the Korean people. His demise amounts to the Korean people's loss of an outstanding hero.

Expressing profound condolences to the Korean people, we are convinced that the feats of HE Marshal Kim Jong Il will last forever.