Pyongyang, December 28 (KCNA) -- French personages visited the DPRK mission to mourn the demise of leader Kim Jong Il. Among them were General Secretary of the Central Committee of the French Revolutionary Communist League Jean Luc Sale and its international secretaries, the member of the National Council of French Communist Party, Senator Jean-Claude Frecon, chairman of the French Group for the Study of the DPRK, Andre Aubry, president of the France-Korea Friendship Association, and chairmen of its regional committees, Edmond Jouve, director-general of the European Society for the Study of the Juche Idea, and its Councillor Lyne Sinyodyium, advisor in charge of French foreign trade and other personages of different circles.

They paid silent tribute to Kim Jong Il.

Jean Luc Sale wrote in the mourners' book that he believed the Korean people would build a thriving nation true to the behests of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.