The message said:

I warmly congratulate you, supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, on your election as first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, the top posts of the DPRK, on behalf of the leadership of the National Executive Committee of the Revolutionary Party of Tanzania and all the members of the party and on my own behalf.

We would like to take this opportunity to express our conviction that the friendly and true relations between our two parties will grow stronger in the future.

We wish you and the people of the DPRK greater success in attaining the target for future development.