Pyongyang, December 21 (KCNA) -- The South Headquarters of the Pan-national Alliance for Korea's Reunification convened a meeting of its Presidium Tuesday upon hearing the sad news that leader Kim Jong Il passed away all of a sudden.

At the meeting the organization set a mourning period ending on Dec. 29 and proposed to the different circles in south Korea to hold a memorial service for Kim Jong Il, chairman of the National Defence Commission.

It also called for forming a non-governmental mourners' group involving personages of political parties and public organizations who support the June 15 joint declaration and the October 4 declaration.

The organization urged the "government" to immediately express condolences and dispatch an official mourners' group and unconditionally allow the non-governmental mourners' group to visit the DPRK.