Pyongyang, December 22 (KCNA) -- Various parts of Pyongyang witnessed on Wednesday the display of portraits of smiling Kim Jong Il, the great father. Soon the places were crowded with mourners who missed the leader very much and made a firm pledge to glorify his revolutionary exploits forever and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche by carrying forward the tradition of Mt. Paektu.

No sooner had a large portrait of smiling Kim Jong Il been displayed at Kim Il Sung Square in the heart of the capital than it drew an endless stream of mourners day and night.

Public servants of the Education Commission and ministries of Foreign Affairs, Agriculture and Foreign Trade and officials of institutions in the city including the Pyongyang City Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea thronged to the square with wreaths, bunches of flowers and flowers in their hands.

They broke into bitter lamentation, looking up to the portrait.

Upon hearing the news that the above-said portrait was displayed at the plaza of the Party Founding Memorial Tower, residents of Taedonggang, Tongdaewon and Songyo Districts of the city and on its outskirts rushed there to mourn the leader's demise. Bitter cries of tens of thousands of Pyongyangites grew louder as time went by.

Overcome with bitter sorrow over the sudden and heart-breaking loss of Kim Jong Il, an endless crowd of servicepersons visited the plaza of the April 25 House of Culture to mourn his demise.

They missed their Supreme Commander very much as he made endless journeys to the front, his jacket wet with sweat all his life.

Officials of ministries of Light Industry and Fisheries grieved over the demise of Kim Jong Il before his portrait set up at the plaza of the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium, feeling regretful for failing to do their best to allay his fatigue.

Seen there were grief-stricken employees of the Meat and Fish Shop in Pothongmun Street.

Among the wailing mourners were students of Pyongyang Medical College of Kim Il Sung University standing vigil by the side of the portrait and medical workers of People's Hospitals of Central and Pothonggang Districts.

The plaza of the Pyongyang Circus Theater where the leader's portrait was displayed was crowded with an endless crowd of mourners. They included officials and other working people of ministries of Land and Environmental Conservation and Urban Management, the Supreme Court, the Mangyongdae Schoolchildren's Palace and Hyangmanru Popular Restaurant and other ministries and national institutions and industrial establishments, schools, dongs and neighborhood units and students.

They bitterly cried, recollecting with painful hearts the leader who breathed his last after suffering all sorts of hardships and spending most of the time for field guidance all his life.

Artistes of the Pyongyang Circus deeply grieved over the loss of the tender-hearted leader.

The ground in front of the Hana Music Information Center to which the leader provided field guidance in the last period of his life turned into a veritable sea of mourners from Raknang District of the city.

Laid before the portrait were wreaths in the name of party, power and economic organs, working people's organizations, industrial establishments, cooperative farms and schools and flowers presented by officials and working people, school youth and children and residents in the district.

Among the wailing mourners were officials and people of various strata of organs and enterprises, farms and school youth and students of the Music Information Center, the Raknang Disabled Soldiers' Essential Plastic Goods Factory, the district library and Pyongyang Information Technology College and war veterans and members of women's union in Chungsong-dong No.3 and Kwanmun-dong No. 3.