[2017-07-10]



















All the Korean people—service personnel, working people from all walks of life and schoolchildren—visited the statues and large portraits of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il throughout the country to pay floral tribute to the founder of socialist Korea and eternal sun of Juche on the occasion of the 23rd anniversary of the demise of the President.

Baskets of flowers were laid at their statues on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang by a delegation of the Lenin Young Communist League of the Russian Federation, members of the UNFPA country office, the family of Chinese anti-Japanese revolutionary martyr Zhang Weihua and Jong Il Sim, widow of DPRK Hero An Tong Su, while floral baskets were sent there by Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and the Switzerland-Korea Committee.

Flower baskets were also sent there by Angolan personages including a county magistrate and directors of state and county hospitals.

On July 8, the greatest memorial day of the nation, senior Party and state officials visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun to pay homage to the President. Respect was also paid there by resident diplomatic envoys, members of country offices of international organizations, military attaches and other foreigners.

The Korean Revolution Museum was visited by senior Party and government officials, members of the Party’s central leadership body in Pyongyang and officials from ministries and national agencies. Among them were Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People’s Assembly, Pak Pong Ju, vice-chairman of the DPRK State Affairs Commission and premier of the Cabinet, and Choe Ryong Hae, vice-chairman of the DPRK SAC and vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, who are all members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, and the chairman of a friendly party as well.

Before looking round different halls, they listened to the explanations of the fact that Kim Il Sung had conducted energetic activities for the well-being of the people, the prosperity and reunification of the country and the cause of global independence until the last moment of his life since he had set out on the road of the revolution in his early years, while doing everything he could do for the country and people.

Young people, workers and other trade union members and farmers held meetings to take an oath of loyalty and express their determination to remain faithful to Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un’s leadership, while women’s union officials and members got together for a study session on the greatness of the President.

Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni and Great Queen Norodom Monineath Sihanouk sent large baskets of flowers to the DPRK embassy in Phnom Penh.

Remembrance meetings, symposiums and lectures took place in different countries including Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Bangladesh and Ethiopia, and the National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea of the Democratic Republic of Congo published a special issue of bulletin under the headline “23rd anniversary of the death of the great leader Kim Il Sung, president of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”.

Meanwhile, the International Committee for Remembering President Kim Il Sung was formed as well as such national committees in many countries including Thailand, Russia, Iceland, Finland, Indonesia, Egypt, Cambodia, Norway, Germany, Brazil, Ukraine and Angola.



By Jong Sun Bok PT



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