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Congratulatory Message to Kim Jong Un from Chongryon Central Standing Committee
Pyongyang, January 1 (KCNA) -- Supreme leader Kim Jong Un received a congratulatory message from the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) on Wednesday.

The message says that last year Juche 102 (2013) was a significant year which celebrated with splendor the 60th anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War and the 65th anniversary of the DPRK as grand political festivals of victors, and which will go down in the history of the country as it firmly defended its sovereignty and dignity in the showdown with the U.S. and brought about great changes startling the world people in building a thriving nation.

The message notes that Kim Jong Un is an outstanding statesman and a great master of creation and construction who is wisely leading the Juche cause to a final victory with his clairvoyant insight and extraordinary political caliber.

Thanks to your particular benevolence and profound loving care, Chongryon could make progress in the patriotic movement by dynamically struggling without a moment's stop all the year round even under the unprecedentedly hard situation, it says.

It expresses the resolution to firmly defend and strengthen Chongryon, a precious patriotic legacy left by the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, and usher in a new heyday in the movement of Koreans in Japan without fail.

It also renewed the will to do a tangible work for supporting the homeland, dynamically conduct external activities and positively contribute to achieving the cause of national reunification.

The Chongryon Central Standing Committee wholeheartedly wished Kim Jong Un good health.

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