Pyongyang, December 20 (KCNA) -- All the Koreans are in the bitterest grief after hearing the sad news that leader Kim Jong Il passed away of a sudden disease on his way of field guidance, the greatest loss to the nation which came like a bolt from the blue.

Former anti-Japanese revolutionary fighter Hwang Sun Hui who came to Mansu Hill on a wheelchair grieved over the leader's demise, her knees on stone steps. She said: "The news was so unbelievable that I felt as if the sky were falling down.

"I feel my heart would break. The general passed away all of a sudden not in his office or residence but on a running train about which our people talked in tears, on his way of forced march for field guidance to meet soldiers and people.

"I wish I rushed to him and weeped bitterly. I want to stand before your statue, calling you in a chocking voice, but you did not allow us to erect your statue. You never allowed any monument to your exploits to be erected.

"You dedicated yourself to President Kim Il Sung, to comrades and people all your life.

"We, members of the first generation of the revolution, feel so regretful for failing to erect your statue."

This was her lamentation as it was so regretful for failing to erect his statue as Koreans never thought of Korea without Kim Jong Il even in a dream.

Hwang Sun Hui is an anti-Japanese revolutionary fighter who fought against the Japanese imperialists for the liberation of the country at the risk of her life under the leadership of Kim Il Sung and a loyalist who held Kim Jong Il in high esteem as a central figure for unity and leadership.