Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- Personages of political parties and organizations in Nepal paid condolatory visits to the DPRK embassy in Katmandu between Dec. 21 and 23 over the demise of leader Kim Jong Il.

They were ex-Prime Minister Madav Kumar Nepal, leader of the C.C., Communist Party (United Marxist-Leninist) and honorary chairman of the International Preparatory Committee for Commemorating the Centenary of Birth of President Kim Il Sung, Pashupati Shumsher J. B. Rana, chairman of the C.C., National Democratic Party, Bam Dev Gautam, vice-chairman of the C.C., Communist Party (United Marxist-Leninist), K. P. Sharma Oli, chairman of the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Committee who is director of the International Department of the C.C., Communist Party (United Marxist-Leninist), and Chairman Manju Ratna Sakya and members of the Journalist Association for the Study of the Juche Idea and Songun Politics.

The visitors placed floral baskets and bouquets before the portrait of Kim Jong Il and expressed their deep condolences.