They are the presidents of Maldives, Myanmar, Pakistan, Indonesia, Bulgaria and Belarus, the captains regent of San Marino, the president Serbia, Guinea and Uganda, the prime minister of India, the general chairman and the secretary general of the Central Directive Council of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the International Kim Il Sung Prize Council and the secretary general of 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 UNESCO, the director of the Regional Office for Southeast Asia of the WHO, the governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Administration of the Russian Federation, and other personages of China, Japan, Germany France, the U.S. and Australia.

Meanwhile, the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea received New Year's cards from the Revolutionary Communist Party of France and the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist).