They included the Standing Council of the Korean Federation of Workers in Commerce in Japan, the Central Standing Committee of the Korean Youth League in Japan, the Central Standing Committee of the Union of Democratic Korean Women in Japan and other organizations and affiliated bodies of Chongryon, the Choson Sinbo Company, the Korean News Service, the Hagu Bookshop, the Kumgang-san Opera Troupe, the Tonghae Co. Ltd., Kumgang Insurance Company and the Committee for Promoting Korea-Japan Economic Exchange and other businesses, regional headquarters of Chongryon, Korean University and Korean schools at all levels in Japan.

The messages extended the highest glory and warm congratulations to Kim Jong Un on the occasion of the New Year.

The New Year 2023 is a year marking the 75th founding anniversary of the DPRK and the 70th anniversary of the victory in the great Fatherland Liberation War and a year which will be decorated as one of great victory in which the dignity and national power of the DPRK advancing along the immutable course of self-reliance are more powerfully demonstrated all over the world and the great ambition and ideal of the people are translated into a proud reality.

The messages said that in this significant year they will more dynamically make the patriotic advance to usher in a new heyday of the movement of Koreans in Japan in the great era of Kim Jong Un and a new era of prosperity of Chongryon, true to the letter sent by him to the participants in the 25th Congress of Chongryon.

The messages wished Kim Jong Un good health.