They included the presidents of Lebanon, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Armenia, king of Jordan, presidents of Indonesia and Vietnam, prime minister of Malta, president of Belarus, captains regent of San Marino, presidents of Guinea, Malawi, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Angola, Uganda, Nicaragua and Mexico, general secretary of the C.C., the Communist Party of Syria, general chairman and secretary general of the Central Directive Council of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, general secretary of the C.C., the All-India Forward Bloc, the secretary of the C.C., the Communist Party of Malta, chairman of the C.C., the Communist Party of Czech and Moravia, general secretary of the C.C., the Communist Party of Portugal and the national secretary of the Socialist Workers' Party of the United States of America.

Kim Jong Un also received New Year cards from the UN secretary general, chairman of the South Center Committee, director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization, director general of UNESCO and the director of the Regional Office for South-East Asia of WHO.

He received a congratulatory message from the Ethiopian president.