Pyongyang, January 15 (KCNA) -- Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un received congratulatory messages and letters from different countries on the occasion of the Eighth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).

They include the secretary general of the Lebanon Federation of Workers, the senior leader of the Indian People's Party, the chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Socialist Party (Romania), the general secretary of the Guinean Rainbow People's Assembly, the national chairman of the People's Progressive Party of Nigeria and the national leader of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist).

Also among them are the deputy general secretary of the National Democratic Congress of Ghana, the secretary general of the International Kim Il Sung Prize Council and the International Kim Jong Il Prize Council, the vice-director general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea, the director of the Asian Regional Institute of the Juche Idea and other personages of political, public and economic circles in China, Russia, Iran, Japan, Germany, Romania, Belarus, France, Austria, Spain, Nigeria, Tanzania and DR Congo, and representatives of organizations for the study of the Juche idea, organizations for supporting Korea's reunification and friendship organizations.

Meanwhile, the Central Committee of the WPK received congratulatory messages from the general secretary of the Mongolian People's Party, the general secretary of the National Council of the Communist Party of India, the international secretary of the Serbian Communist Party, the secretary for International Relations of the Central Committee of the Spanish Communist Party, the chairman of the African Party for the Solidarity and Justice of Mali, the chairperson of the Coalition for Mali, the vice-chairman of the Popular Liberation Movement of Angola, the general secretary and the secretary for International Relations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela and the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Venezuela.

The secretary of the Central Council of the Communist Parties-the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the international secretary of the Awami League of Bangladesh, the acting chairman of the Communist Party of Germany, the international secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communists' Party, the general secretary of the Revolutionary Communist Party of France, the national chairman of the New Communist Party of Britain, the chairman of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) and the Central Committee of the Mozambique Liberation Front Party sent congratulatory messages to the Eighth Congress of the WPK.

And the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party sent congratulatory messages to the Central Committee of the WPK and the Eighth Congress of the WPK.