The message said:

I express my heartfelt thanks to you on behalf of the Central Committee of the LPRP and on my own behalf for extending warm congratulations and wishes and sending a beautiful flower basket on the occasion of the 63rd anniversary of the founding of the LPRP.

I express my belief that the DPRK would as ever register bigger fresh achievements in defending a socialist powerful nation and accomplishing the cause of building it under the wise and resolute leadership of the WPK headed by you.

I wish you good health and success in your noble work.

I wish that the long-standing friendly and cooperative ties between the two parties, governments and peoples would grow stronger.