Pyongyang, December 25 (KCNA) -- Personages of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, Kaysone Phomvihane Memorial and the State Veterans Committee of Laos paid condolatory visits to the DPRK embassy in Vientiane on Dec. 21.

They laid wreaths before a portrait of leader Kim Jong Il and observed a moment's silence.

They wrote in a condolence book that the life of Kim Jong Il was that of a great revolutionary who devoted his all to the socialist cause.