Pyongyang, January 9 (KCNA) -- Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un received congratulatory messages and letters from different countries on the occasion of the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea.

They are the general secretary of the Union Solidarity and Development Party of Myanmar, the chairman of the Mongolian People's Party, the general secretary of the Syrian Communist Party (Unified), the general secretary of the Arab Democratic Union Party of Syria, the general secretary of the Al Ahd al Watani Party of Syria, the secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Democratic Front, the general secretary of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front, the president of the Khmer Democratic Party, the chairman of the Funcinpec Party of Cambodia, the chairman of the Motherland Party of Turkey, the general secretary of the Islamic Coalition Party of Iran, the chairman and the international secretary of the Communist Party in Denmark, chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, the chairman of "A Just Russia", the chairwoman of the Party for Peace and Unity of Russia, the chairman of the National Salvation Front of Russia, the chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party "Russian Communists", the chairman of the Hungarian Workers' Party, the chairman of the Party of Socialists in the Republic of Moldova, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus, the chairman of the Communist Party in Sweden, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Communist Party, the general secretary of the Movement for Peace and Socialism of Italy, the general secretary of the South West Africa People's Organizational Party in Namibia, the general secretary of the Workers' Party for the Independence of Senegal and the secretary general of the Uganda National Resistance Movement.

Among them are also personages of the political, social and economic circles and delegates of groups for the study of the Juche idea, organizations for supporting Korea's reunification and friendship organizations in China, Russia, Nepal, Malaysia, Myanmar, Kuwait, Thailand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Turkey, Japan, Vietnam, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Belarus, Sweden, France, the UK, Zimbabwe, the U.S., Peru, Ecuador and New Zealand including the deputy leader of the Democratic Party of Thailand and the secretary general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea.

The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) received congratulatory messages from the chairman of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, the general secretary of the Revolutionary Communist Party of France, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Italy and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the People of Spain.

The president of the Supreme Council of the United Russia Party, the honorary chairman of the Bulgarian Communists Union, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Switzerland, the general secretary of the South African Communist Party, the secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Malta, the Central Leadership of the Baath Arab Socialist Party and the Central Committee of the Slovak Communist Party sent congratulatory messages to the 8th Congress of the WPK. -0-