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Pyongyang, August 16 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, sent a reply message to Comrade Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, president of the Russian Federation, on August 15.

In his reply he expressed his heartfelt thanks to Putin for his warm congratulations on the 80^th anniversary of Korea’s liberation. And he continued:

The great history of national liberation that brought about a radical turn in the Korean people’s effort to hew out their destiny and achieve rejuvenation is indelibly inscribed also with the matchless self-sacrificing spirit and undying exploits of the officers and men of the Red Army. The militant friendship and unity that the peoples and armies of the two countries shaped in the resistance struggle against their common enemy have fully displayed their invincibility and vitality in the long years of struggle to defeat the imperialists’ high-handed outrages and ambition for hegemony.

The admirable 80-year-long history, tradition and blood-sealed ties now constitute the main cornerstone on which the DPRK-Russia relations of friendship and cooperation have developed into the stablest comradeship and a comprehensive strategic companionship, and serve as a source of inexhaustible driving force for pushing the two nations’ effort to build theirs into powerful countries and establish a new, multipolar world.

The great friendship and unity between the two peoples who have established future-oriented inter-state relations and are struggling shoulder to shoulder to attain a common purpose will surely be carried forward along with the ennobling spirit of the forerunners and with the new era of overall boom of the bilateral relations.

Expressing his firm belief that the Russian army and people, under the energetic leadership of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, will surely emerge victorious in their sacred cause of defending the national prestige and fame and achieving prosperity of the Russian Federation, he wished that only victory and glory are in store for the great Russia all the time.