Seen before the statue and grave were wreaths from

Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army.

Present at the wreath-laying ceremonies were Choe Thae Bok, Yang Hyong Sop and others, officials of party and power organs, ministries and national institutions, servicepersons, working people and school youth and children in the city of Pyongyang.

Placed before the statue and the grave were wreaths in the name of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly and the DPRK Cabinet.

Also laid were wreaths in the name of ministries, national institutions, revolutionary schools, education and public health institutions and party and power organs, enterprises, farms and schools in Pyongyang and bunches of flowers.

The participants paid silent tribute to Kim Hyong Jik who devoted all his life to the sacred cause of independence of the country and freedom and liberation of the people with the steadfast spirit of national independence and the anti-Japanese patriotic idea.

Wreaths and bouquets were also laid before his statues at Kim Hyong Jik Military Medical University and in Sakju County, North Phyongan Province and Junggang County, Jagang Province.