Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- Mourning sites can be seen here and there in the DPRK being visited by an increasing number of people from all walks of life and school youth and children. They are ardently yearning for leader Kim Jong Il in bitter grief.

They are wailing in memory of Kim Jong Il in humble reverence.

Workers of the Pyongyang Textile Mill were seen shedding tears yearning for Kim Jong Il after laying wreaths reflecting their loyalty before his portrait in the mourning site at the textile mill.

Mun Kang Sun, 29, weaver of the general weaving shop, said:

Leader Kim Jong Il put forward me, an ordinary worker, as a pioneer well known all over the country.

Born as a posthumous daughter, I called Kim Jong Il "father" when I was received by him.

To think of the unexpected loss of my father, I cannot repress bitter sorrow.

Working people of the Pyongyang 326 Electric Wire Factory set up a mourning site to express deep condolences over the demise of the father of the nation.

Kim Sok Nam, 49, manager of the factory, hardly holding back tears said that he can not help picturing to myself the image of Kim Jong Il who expressed great satisfaction with the factory that had been updated as befitting a factory of the Songun era while going around the modern production processes and the compound of the factory in which cultured practice in production and life has been established on a high level.

Kong Tok Chang, 57, director of the Pyongyang Horticulture Guidance Bureau, said to a reporter in the mourning site at the Pyongyang Vegetable Science Institute:

Leader Kim Jong Il came here to praise a success, though small, achieved by us. We made up our mind to give bigger pleasure to him, but now hearing the news of his passing away we cannot keep back our sorrow.

An increasing number of students, servicepersons of the Korean People's Army and people of different social standings are heading to the mourning site at Kim Il Sung University.

Ri Kyong Yong, 70, researcher of the faculty of economy of the university, said:

For decades since I started teaching at the highest institute of Juche education, I received trust and loving care shown by Kim Jong Il and in this period I became a professor and a doctor thanks to him. In January this year I received a birthday spread from him on my 70th birthday.

I can not forget his great loving care so long as I am alive.

Though I am called elder professor, I will hold in high esteem Vice-Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Jong Un who is identical to Kim Jong Il with youthful ardor.