In the message, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un extended warm congratulations on behalf of the DPRK government and people to President Putin and the government and people of the Russian Federation on the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries, a significant common holiday.

He said that the first establishment of diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union after the foundation of the DPRK provided a firm guarantee for further consolidating the friendly ties between the peoples of the DPRK and Russia, closely united in blood and comradeship during the anti-Japanese war, and steadily strengthening and developing their traditional and strategic good-neighborly relations.

The DPRK-Russia relations, started with militant friendship and comradely cooperation by the preceding leaders, have stood all trials and tests of history and consistently advanced along the road of friendship, solidarity and good neighborliness, and are now dynamically advancing towards the stable and future-oriented new era for eternal prosperity, the message said, adding:

I am very satisfied over the fact that I recently paid an official goodwill visit to Russia and had an exchange of candid and comprehensive opinions with Comrade Putin for multiform development of the DPRK-Russia friendly relations, and express the firm belief that the bilateral friendship and solidarity and cooperation, consolidated generation after generation and century after century, will steadily develop onto a new level in the future, too.

I take this opportunity to heartily wish you good health and success in your responsible work, hoping that the Russian people out in building a powerful state would always emerge victorious and glorious in the struggle for frustrating the imperialists' persistent hegemonic policy and moves to isolate and stifle Russia and defending the sovereignty, dignity, security and peace of the country.