The message expressed belief that the cooperative relations between the DPRK and Russia would further develop in the course of actively putting the agreements reached between the two countries in recent years into practice.

It wished the prime minister success in his work for socio-economic development of the country and welfare of the people.

On the same day DPRK Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun sent a similar message to his Russian counterpart Sergei Viktorovich Lavrov.