Pyongyang, September 7 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il received a floral basket from Mahmoud Abbas, president of Palestine, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and chief of the Palestinian National Authority, on the 63rd anniversary of the founding of the DPRK.

It was conveyed to an official concerned by Ismail Ahmed Mohamed Hasan, Palestine ambassador to the DPRK, on Wednesday.