Among them are the president of the Russian Federation, general secretary of the Communist Party of China who is the president of China, presidents of Mongolia, Syria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, Algeria and Angola, and captains regent of San Marino.

Kim Jong Un also received New Year cards from the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the chairman of A Just Russia, the chairman of the C.C., the Communist Party of Czech and Moravia, the national secretary of the Socialist Workers' Party of the U.S., the director-general of the UNESCO and the chief of the Regional Office for South-East Asia of the WHO.