The state leaders include presidents of Russia, China, Laos, Mongolia, Syria, Armenia, Vietnam and South Africa and the prime minister of Bangladesh.

Among the party leaders are the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the standing secretary of the Secretariat of the C.C., Communist Party of Vietnam who is member of its Political Bureau, the chairman of A Just Russia, the chairman of the C.C., Communist Party of Czech and Moravia, and the national secretary of the Socialist Workers' Party of the U.S.

Kim Jong Un also received New Year cards from the director-general of UNESCO, the director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization and the governor of Khabarovsk Territory and the mayor of Khabarovsk City of the Russian Federation.