Pyongyang, March 15 (KCNA) — 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 reply message to Daniel Ortega Saavedra and Rosario Murillo Zambrana, co-presidents of the Republic of Nicaragua, on March 12.

The message said:

Extending thanks to you for your warm congratulations to me on my reelection as the general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea at the Ninth WPK Congress, I express belief that the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation between the two countries would steadily develop.