Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) — The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, sent a congratulatory verbal message and a congratulatory flower basket to Comrade Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and President of the People’s Republic of China, on June 15 on the occasion of his birthday.

In his verbal message, Comrade Kim Jong Un warmly congratulated Comrade General Secretary Xi Jinping on his birthday.

He sincerely wished the general secretary good health and greater success in leading the cause of socialist construction in China as the leading core of the CPC.

Written on a ribbon of the flower basket were the letters “I warmly congratulate Comrade General Secretary Xi Jinping on your birthday.”

The DPRK ambassador to the PRC courteously conveyed the congratulatory verbal message and flower basket sent by Comrade Kim Jong Un to a senior official of the International Liaison Department of the C.C., CPC.