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Greetings to Kim Jong Un from Syrian President
Pyongyang, May 6 (KCNA) -- Marshal Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and first chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, Friday received a congratulatory message from Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad who doubles as regional secretary of the Baath Arab Socialist Party.

The message said:

I send the warmest congratulations to you on holding the WPK's Seventh Congress after 36 years since its Sixth Congress held in 1980.

I am convinced that the current congress will provide an opportunity of confirming once again the line of struggle which Generalissimo Kim Il Sung had maintained since the liberation and Generalissimo Kim Jong Il carried forward to oppose all forms of interference and domination by imperialism and build independent Juche Korea by the united efforts of all the people.

The WPK put the DPRK and the Korean people on the proud position by victoriously leading the Korean people in their struggle for building a thriving socialist nation in the past period.

Since you began leading the DPRK, the WPK has turned into an invincible force having more closely united and powerful popular base and an invulnerable fortress of the revolution thanks to Songun and Chollima advance, meeting ceaseless challenges such as joint military maneuvers of the U.S. and the south Korean authorities.

We express full solidarity with your country in its struggle for opposing all forms of interference of foreign forces in the Korean issue and reunifying Korea independently.

We hold that the sanctions against the DPRK are the last means of those who suffered setbacks in breaking the unity and cohesion of the independent people opposing hegemony and colonialism and these unjust sanctions should be lifted.

Extending firm solidarity to your leadership, government and people struggling against the moves of the imperialists in order to reunify Korea, we wish your Party Seventh Congress good success in its work for the prosperity and development of the DPRK.

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