He in his message sent his warm congratulations and compatriotic greetings to the chairman and all other officials of Chongryon and Koreans in Japan on the hope-filled New Year 2015.

Last year Chongryon officials and compatriots in Japan successfully held the 23rd Congress of Chongryon last year as one of loyalty and single-minded unity, inheritance and innovations even under the hard conditions in the foreign land, and laid a firm foundation for developing the overall work of Chongryon on a new higher stage, the message said.

Noting that he was pleased with this, he continued in the message:

I am firmly convinced that Chongryon officials and Koreans in Japan will keep pace with the people in the homeland advancing full of confidence in victory this significant year which will mark the 70th anniversary of the country's liberation and the 60th anniversary of the formation of Chongryon, and will make great successes in their efforts for ushering in a new heyday in the movement of Koreans in Japan in single-minded unity.

As the peerless great men of Mt. Paektu give blessings and our country of Juche protects and takes care of it, Chongryon remains unfazed and only victory and glory will always be in store for the movement of Koreans in Japan.

I wish you Comrade Chairman and all other Chongryon officials and Koreans in Japan good health and all the families of compatriots in Japan harmony and happiness in the new year, too.