Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- Foreign personages paid congratulatory visits to the DPRK embassies in their countries from August 11 to 20 on the 51st anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's start of Songun revolutionary leadership. Among them were the minister of Environment and the chairman of the Study and Research Forum of Songun Politics of the National Press Club of Nepal, the chairman of the Russian Association for the Study of the Juche Idea, the secretary general of the International Taekwon-Do Association in Iran, the chairman of the Nigerian National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea, the chairman of the Nigerian Group for the Study of Kimjongilism and the chairman of the Nigerian Group for the Study of the Songun Politics.

They laid floral baskets and bouquets before the full-length paintings of President Kim Il Sung standing together with Kim Jong Il before paying tribute to them.