Pyongyang, December 27 (KCNA) -- Staff members of the Nigerian and UK embassies and missions of the UNDP, FAO and the United Nations Population Fund here paid condolences to the bier of leader Kim Jong Il on Tuesday.

Amid the playing of solemn music, wreaths in the name of the Nigerian embassy and UNDP mission were laid before his bier.

They paid silent tribute to him and looked round his bier.

They made entries in the condolence book.