Pyongyang, December 23 (KCNA) -- A wreath was sent to the bier of leader Kim Jong Il by Lao president Choummaly Sayasone, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, on his demise.

The wreath was laid before Kim Jong Il's bier by Somlith Chindavong, Lao charge d'Affaires a.i. in Pyongyang, together with an embassy staff member Friday.