The Lao president in his message expressed his deep thanks to Kim Jong Un for sending warm greetings and best wishes on his 80th birthday.

He said that he was very pleased to see the good traditional friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries steadily growing strong to give substantial benefit to the peoples of the two countries and making contributions to world peace and stability and development of the cooperative relations.

He sincerely wished Kim Jong Un good health and steady big success in accomplishing the cause of defending and developing the country.