Pyongyang, December 20 (KCNA) -- People in South Hwanghae Province of the DPRK are visiting the statue of President Kim Il Sung with bitter sorrow at the demise of leader Kim Jong Il.

Ri Il Nam (43), head of a sub-workteam of the Samjigang Co-op Farm in Jaeryong County, told a reporter:

We wanted to have Kim Jong Il on fields of bumper harvest again by doing well the new year's farming preparations, but he passed away to our regret.

I feel as if the sky were falling down.

Our sub-workteam members deplored that they had not done much more things true to his high intention over the past years, and keenly felt again how proud and happy the Korean people are as they had the wise leader.

All the farmers repeatedly pledged to bring about bumper harvest at any cost, true to his behests by overcoming sorrow and displaying strength and courage.

Kim Chol U (51), head of a workteam of the Unryul Mine, sobbed while saying that every part of the mine associated with the traces of Kim Jong Il's field guidance is soaked with workers' tears.

Yun Jong Hui (19), a girl student of Jo Ok Hui Haeju Teacher Training College, said:

Youth and students in the province are now burning their hearts with an oath to translate into a reality the plan for building a thriving nation by Kim Jong Il who devoted his all to the people.

Our students will discharge their duty as young vanguard in remaining true to the leadership of General Kim Jong Un who is identical to Kim Jong Il.