Pyongyang, September 7 (KCNA) -- The party, armed forces and power organs, ministries and national institutions and working people's organizations of the DPRK sent wreaths to the Cuban embassy here Tuesday and Wednesday, expressing condolences over the death of Colonel General Julio Casas Regueiro, member of the Political Bureau of the C.C., the Communist Party of Cuba, vice-president of the Council of State and minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba.

Laid before the portrait of the deceased were wreaths from the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, the International Affairs Department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Foreign Trade, the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, the Central Committee of the Youth League, the Central Committee of the Democratic Women's Union of Korea, the Korean Committee for Solidarity with Cuba and General Bureau of Diplomatic Corps Affairs.

Present there were Yang Hyong Sop, vice president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Kim Yong Jin, chairman of the Education Commission who doubles as chairman of the Korean Committee for Solidarity with Cuba, Pak Kun Gwang, vice department director of the C.C., the WPK, Pak Jae Gyong, vice minister of the People's Armed Forces, Kim Hyong Jun, vice minister of Foreign Affairs, O Ryong Chol, vice minister of Foreign Trade, Jon Yong Jin, vice chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, Choe Han Chun, vice chairman of the C.C., the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, Kil Chol Hyok, secretary of the C.C., the Youth League, Chae Chun Hui, vice chairwoman of the C.C., the Democratic Women's Union of Korea, and officials concerned.

They paid silent tribute to the deceased and made entries in the condolence book.