The message said that the leadership of the Mongolian People's Party and its chairman paid high respects to leader Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the WPK and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, in deep reverence on the occasion of the first anniversary of his demise.

It expressed firm belief that the efforts of Kim Jong Il, the great leader of the Korean people, for the development of friendly relations between the two countries will be steadily carried forward in the future, too.