Kim Jong Un received New Year cards from the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the People's Republic of China and his wife, the president of the Russian Federation, the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the president of the Republic of Tajikistan, the president of Turkmenistan, the president of Armenia, the president of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the president of the Republic of Indonesia, the president of the Republic of Belarus and the president of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.

Kim Jong Un also received New Year cards from the chairman of Socialist Political Party "For Just Russia-Patriots-Truth", the general secretary of the Communist Party of Portugal, the national secretary of the Socialist Workers' Party of the United States of America, the director-general of the UN Office at Vienna and the president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development.