They were conveyed to Pak Ui Chun, foreign minister, on Thursday by Valery E. Sukhinin, Russian ambassador to the DPRK, who is doyen of the corps.

On the same day, congratulatory letters to Kim Jong Un from Chhorn Hay, Cambodian ambassador to the DPRK, Morteza Moradian, Iranian ambassador to the DPRK, Ismail Abdelrahman Ghoneim Hussein, Egyptian ambassador to the DPRK, Haissam Saad, Syrian charge d'affaires a.i. here, and the representative of the UNICEF here were handed over to officials concerned.