Pyongyang, December 23 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party sent a wreath to the bier of Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army.

Charge d'Affaires Ad Interim Somlith Chindavong and a staff member of the Lao embassy here laid the wreath before the bier of Kim Jong Il at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace on Friday.