Pyongyang, September 10 (KCNA) -- The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un received congratulatory messages from organizations and bodies of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) on the occasion of the 77th founding anniversary of the DPRK. The congratulatory messages came from the Standing Council of the Korean Federation of Workers in Commerce in Japan, the Central Standing Committee of the Korean Youth League in Japan, the Central Standing Committee of the Union of Democratic Korean Women in Japan, the Central Standing Management Board of the Korean Youth Commercial Association in Japan, the Central Standing Committee of the Union of Korean Teachers and School Clerks in Japan, the Central Standing Council of the Korean Educationists Association in Japan, the Central Standing Council of the Korean Social Scientists Association in Japan, the Standing Council of the Korean Sportsmen's Federation in Japan, the Central Standing Committee of the Union of Korean Writers and Artists in Japan, the Central Standing Council of the Korean Health Workers Association in Japan, the Central Standing Committee of the Union of Korean Students in Japan, the Central Standing Council of the Korean Human Rights Association in Japan and other central organizations and affiliated organizations under Chongryon, the Choson Sinbo Company, the Korean News Service, the Hagu Bookshop, the Kumgang-san Opera Troupe, the Tonghae Commercial Company, Inc., the Kumgang Insurance Company, the Committee for Promoting Korea-Japan Economic Exchange and other affiliates, regional headquarters of Chongryon and Korea University and other Korean schools at all levels in Japan. The messages paid the highest tribute and warmest thanks to the great Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, the founder and the builders of the DPRK, on the occasion of the 77th founding anniversary of the glorious motherland, the DPRK. They said that Koreans in Japan are unyieldingly advancing along the road of patriotism for adding luster to the socialist motherland led by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, with the honor and pride of being overseas citizens of the genuine independent and sovereign state. They expressed the will of vigorously opening up the era of comprehensive development of the movement of Koreans in Japan and a new era of the prosperity of Chongryon by fully displaying the might of Chongryon along with the motherland which has entered the era of comprehensive development of the socialist construction, keeping the immutable faith that the motherland is powerful and the advance of the patriotic cause of Chongryon is victorious thanks to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.