They included Raul Castro Ruz, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, president of the Council of State and president of the Council of Ministers of Cuba, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Choummaly Saynasone, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and chairman of the Central Committee of Defence and Security of Laos, Bashar Al-Assad, president of Syria, Mahmoud Abbas, president of Palestine and chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, and Omar Hassan Ahmed Al-Bashir, president of Sudan.

Kim Jong Un in his reply messages expressed deep thanks to them for their sincere congratulations and wishes on the occasion of the 70th founding anniversary of the WPK.

He expressed belief that the friendly and cooperative relations between the DPRK and relevant countries would continue to develop in the future, too, and wished them successes in their work.