Pyongyang, December 25 (KCNA) -- Media of different countries continue giving wide publicity to events held in the DPRK to mourn the demise of leader Kim Jong Il in humblest reverence.

The Xinhua News Agency of China said on Wednesday that though snow fell in Pyongyang the Korean people expressed condolences over the demise of supreme leader Kim Jong Il.

It went on:

The mourning place at Kim Il Sung Square where major events would take place is crowded with an endless stream of Pyongyangites visiting it to express condolences.

Some mourners were calmly weeping when they were paying silent tribute after laying flowers and some others were reluctant to leave there even after observing silence, their backs bent and chocked with tears.

People's Website, an Internet homepage of China, posted an article, saying that snow began to fall in Pyongyang at dawn on Wednesday but this could not prevent Pyongyangites from their mourning the demise of supreme leader Kim Jong Il.

The Voice of Russia aired a program on the same day under the title "Total of more than five million citizens mourn the leader's demise in the capital city of the DPRK."

It said: An endless stream of people is climbing Mansu Hill where the statue of President Kim Il Sung stands.

Their number reached 450,000 at dawn of Tuesday and it went beyond 800,000 at noon.

The Dec. 20 issue of the Cuban newspaper Granma said under the title "Korean people weeping bitterly over the loss of their leader."

The Korean people are stricken with bitter grief and sorrow over their leader's demise, the great loss.

But they are now full of undisputed faith that Kim Jong Un, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea, will lead Korean revolution to victory.