The Russian Association for Friendship and Cultural Cooperation with the DPRK said:

We received the New Year address made by Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, with great enthusiasm and emotion.

We, close friends of the DPRK, are greatly rejoiced over the shining successes the party, army and people of the DPRK made in all fields of socialist construction last year, while smashing the U.S. and its stooges' persistent military provocations and blockade against it and winning victory after victory under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Un.

Today the DPRK has become a symbol of pride and dignity for the world progressives.

The Russian public is fully supporting the DPRK's sincere efforts for improving the relations between the north and the south and reunifying the country independently and peacefully.

It wholeheartedly wishes the Korean people fresh successes in their struggle for building a thriving socialist nation under the unfurled banner of the Juche idea and Songun, united close around Kim Jong Un.

The Ethiopian National Committee for the Study of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism said that only victory and glory would be in store for the Korean people working hard to build a thriving nation and achieve the country's independent and peaceful reunification.