Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un in the message said that he sends warm congratulations and compatriotic salute to the officials of Chongryon and Koreans in Japan in the name of the government of the DPRK and the people in the homeland reflecting the minds of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il, founder and builder of the DPRK and eternal sun of socialist Korea, on the occasion of the 70th founding anniversary of the DPRK.

In the past period the officials of Chongryon and Koreans in Japan resolutely consolidated Chongryon, product of Juche, as a patriotic organization that shares its destiny with the socialist homeland despite whatever storm and stress and firmly defended the DPRK from all forms of denunciation and attacks by hostile forces, true to Kim Il Sung's and

Kim Jong Il's outstanding idea on overseas compatriots movement and their leadership over it, the message said.

The message stressed that Chongryon officials and Koreans in Japan should keep pace with the grand advance of the people in the homeland and work hard to implement the decisions made at the 24th Congress of Chongryon and thus bring earlier the new heyday in the movement of Koreans in Japan with peculiar pride and self-confidence which they built a patriotic and loyal monument in the glorious 70 years of Kim Il Sung's and

Kim Jong Il's Korea.

Although they are in an alien land, they should find the worth of their true life and happiness in the work for the homeland and the nation and leave clear footprints of patriotism and loyalty on the land of the motherland in the spirit of great

Kim Jong Il's patriotism, the message said.

Kim Jong Un in the message expressed the firm belief that the officials of Chongryon and Koreans in Japan would value the noble tradition, the glorious baton, and further speed up the patriotic advance to bring earlier the overall prosperity in the movement of Koreans in Japan and thus make active contribution to bringing into a brilliant reality the patriotic desire of the great leaders for building a powerful country.