He in the message extended warm congratulations and compatriotic greeting to the chairman and all other Chongryon officials and Koreans in Japan on the occasion of the hopeful New Year 2020.

The message said last year Chongryon achieved the great successes in the overall patriotic work by strengthening compatriots' organizations at all levels organizationally and ideologically and dynamically waging various mass movements including the struggle for defending the rights despite the vicious suppression and persecution by the reactionaries within and without.

Highly appreciating the Chongryon officials and Koreans in Japan for having devoted their all to the sacred and patriotic cause for the reunification and prosperity of the country, cherishing the feelings formed with President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il as their blood vessel, the message extended warm thanks to them.

It said that the New Year is a significant year marking the 75th founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea and 65th anniversary of the formation of Chongryon and the year of historic great advance to open up a period of upheaval of new victory in accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche and the patriotic cause of Chongryon in the revolutionary spirit of Mt Paektu and under the unfurled banner of self-reliance.

It noted that in the New Year Chongryon will have to thoroughly establish the ideological system and leadership system of Juche within the organizations at all levels and wage patriotic movement more dynamically while keeping pace with the general onward march of the people in the homeland, and thus make an epochal advance in the struggle for bringing earlier a new heyday of the movement of Koreans in Japan.

It wished the chairman and other officials of Chongryon and Koreans in Japan good health, hoping that all the families of compatriots would overflow with warm affection and happiness.