Kim Jong Un sends a ``congratulatory message'' to President Putin... ``I will firmly hold your hand''

``North Korean General Secretary Kim Jung Eun sent a congratulatory telegram to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who won an overwhelming victory in the presidential election, on the 18th,'' North Korea's state-run Korean Central News Agency said.
Reported. General Secretary Kim congratulated Putin on his election, saying, ``Under your energetic and righteous leadership...we will achieve great achievements in realizing international peace and justice and building an autonomous multipolar world.''
I firmly believe that we will definitely win." He continued, ``I will firmly hold your hand and create a new biography of the friendship between Korea and Russia, which has long historical roots and traditions, in accordance with the demands of the times.''
"We will strongly lead the cause of building a strong nation, which is the aspiration and desire of the peoples of both countries." Kim attended the Russia-North Korea summit held at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Far East in September last year.
With this, the relationship between the two countries ``reached a historical turning point,'' and was evaluated as ``sublimating and developing into a 100-year strategic cooperative relationship with a shared ideal of anti-imperialist independence.''
North Korea's ambassador to Russia delivered Kim's congratulatory telegram to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.