They are presidents of Bangladesh, Pakistan, the State of Palestine, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Tunisia, Algeria and Angola, the king of the Principality of Monaco, captains regent of the Republic of San Marino and presidents of Guinea, Rwanda, Equatorial Guinea and Guyana and their wives.

They also include the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), the general chairwoman and the general secretary of the Central Directive Council of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, the general secretary of the C.C., Communist Party of India (Marxist), the general secretary of the C.C., Communist Party of Portugal, the prime minister of Thailand, the secretary general of the International Kim Il Sung Prize Council and the International Kim Jong Il Prize Council, the co-chairman of the Board of Directors of the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Foundation, the director general of the UN Office at Vienna and the chief of the Regional Office for South-East Asia of the WHO.

Meanwhile, the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea received New Year cards from the C.C., People's Party of Cambodia, the C.C., Revolutionary Communist Party of France, the chairman of the FUNCINPEC Party of Cambodia and the secretary general of the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy of DR Congo.