Pyongyang, December 22 (KCNA) -- Staff members of Chinese and Russian consulates general in Chongjin of the DPRK visited the mourning place arranged at the building of the North Hamgyong Provincial People's Committee on Thursday to express their condolences over the demise of leader Kim Jong Il.

Laid before his portrait there were wreaths in the name of the consul general and the consulate general of China and the Russian consulate general.

The visitors made entries in the condolence book after paying a silent tribute to the memory of Kim Jong Il.