Pyongyang, January 17 (KCNA) -- Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un received congratulatory messages and letters from different countries upon his election as general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).

They include the chairman of the Central Committee of the Nepal Communist Party (United), the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Nepal Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), the secretary general of the Lebanon Federation of Workers, the chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Bangladesh, the president of the Bangladesh People's League, 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 Socialist Unionist Party of Syria, the general secretary of the Syrian Arab Socialist Union Party, the chairman of the Funcinpec Party of Cambodia, the secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Democratic Front, the chairman of the Central Council of the People Unity-"Kyrgyz El" Republican Political Party of Kyrgyzstan, the general secretary of the Islamic Coalition Party of Iran,  the general chairman and the general secretary of the National Guidance Council of the Pioneer Party of Indonesia, the general secretary of the National Council of the Communist Party of India, the chairman and the international secretary of the Communist Party in Denmark, the chairman of the Supreme Council of the National Socialist Party (Romania), 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 General People's Union Party of Russia, the chairman of the Hungarian Workers' Party, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus, the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party-21 of the Czech Republic, the chairman and the international secretary of the Finnish Communists' League, the general secretary and the international secretary of the Central Committee of the New Yugoslav Communist Party, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Ukrainian Communist Party, the acting general secretary of the Democratic Rally of Africa-Democratic Party of Guinea, the general secretary of the South West Africa People's Organizational Party of Namibia, the general secretary of the South African Communist Party, the general secretary of the Basotho National Party of Lesotho, the general secretary of the Workers' Party for the Independence of Senegal, the general secretary of the Communist Party of DR Congo, the general secretary of the Workers' Party of DR Congo, the national chairman of the Popular Revolutionary Party of DR Congo, the national chairman of the Convention of United Democratic Congolese, the chairman of the Ugandan National Executive Committee of the Pan-African Movement, the chairman of the National Progressive Unionist Party of Egypt, the secretary general of the United Left Movement of Dominica, the national leader of the Workers' Party of Mexico, the general secretary of the Central Committee of the People's Socialist Party of Mexico, the national leader of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), the Central Committee of the Czechoslovak Communist Party and the Central Committee of the Slovak Communist Party.

Also among them are the deputy general secretary of the Syria's Baath Arab Socialist Party, the director of the International Department of the Socialist Workers' Party of Croatia, the deputy secretary general of the African National Congress of South Africa, the vice-chairman of the Socialist Freedom Party of Egypt, the honorary director of the Board of Directors of the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Foundation, the chairman of the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization, the secretary general, director-general and vice-director general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea, the secretary general of the African Regional Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea, the honorary director-general of the Latin American Institute of the Juche Idea, the head of the Orchestra of the 21st Century of Russia and other personages of political, public and economic circles, representatives of organizations for the study of the Juche idea, organizations for supporting Korea's reunification and friendship organizations in China, Russia, Nepal, Malaysia, Mongolia, Bangladesh, Syria, Singapore, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Romania, Bulgaria, Belarus, Switzerland, Sweden, the Czech Republic, France, Finland, Poland, the UK, Austria, Guinea, Tanzania, Uganda, Egypt, Ethiopia, Mexico, Venezuela, and Ecuador.

Meanwhile, the Central Committee of the WPK received a congratulatory message from the Central Committee of the People's Party of Cambodia and the secretary general of the Communist Party of Paraguay sent a congratulatory message to the 8th Congress of the WPK. -0-