North Korea Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un Sends Congratulatory Message to President Museveni

As Uganda celebrates her 58th Independence anniversary, hundreds of world leaders have sent in their messages congratulating the People of Uganda and H.E Yoweri Museveni the President of Uganda upon reaching this memorable day.

Among those who have sent in congratulatory messages is North Korea Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un who sent a congratulatory message to Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of the Republic of Uganda, on October 9.

Kim Jong Un is the Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,

His message reads as follows:

On behalf of the government and people of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, I extend my warm congratulations to you and to the government and people of your country on the occasion of the 58th anniversary of independence of Uganda.

 

Our people sincerely hope that under your leadership, the friendly people of Uganda will achieve great successes in their efforts for consolidating the national unity and attaining the socio-economic development of the country.

 

I take this opportunity to express my conviction that the friendly and cooperative relations between our two countries would continuously strengthen and develop by inheriting their history and tradition. End.

 

Uganda’s relationship with North Korea has deep roots stemming from the early 1970s

Under President Museveni's government, North Korea has helped Uganda in military and police training.

“North Korea and Uganda have a relatively long relationship and that relationship has survived government changes on both sides,” says Shea Cotton, research associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey in California.