Pyongyang, December 30 (KCNA) -- Organizations and personages of various countries paid condolatory visits to DPRK missions between Dec. 23 and 27 on the demise of leader Kim Jong Il.

Among them were the deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Jilin Provincial People's Government and the director of the Center for Korean Peninsula Studies at the Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences of China; representatives of the Maritime Territorial Regional Bank Committee, the Development and Investment Financial Company and the Vladivostok Taekwon-do Federation of Russia; the editor-in-chief of the Public News of India; the chairman of the Islamic Revolutionary Proletarian Organization, the director-general for International Relations of the Radio and TV Broadcasting Committee and the director-general for Asia-Oceanic Affairs of the Ministry of Oil of Iran; the general secretary of the Party for Thailand; the chairman of the Pakistan-Korea Friendship Association; the chairman of the Finland-Korea Society; the chief of the Group for the Study of the Juche Idea, the Songun Idea in Fermo of Italy; the chairperson of the Luxembourg-Korea Friendship Association

; the director of Protocol of the Foreign Ministry of Romania; the acting director for Asia-Pacific Affairs of the Foreign Ministry of the Czech Republic, the chairman of the C.C., Czech, Moravian, Silesian Trade Unions' Association and the chairman of the Prague City Committee of the Communist Party of Czech and Moravia; the chairman of the Group for the Study of the Juche Idea in Conakry and the vice-chairman of the Society for the Study of the Juche Literary Idea of Guinea; the chairman of the Nigerian National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea; the deputy commander of Air Force of the People's Defense Forces, the director for Asia-Pacific Affairs of the Foreign Ministry and the permanent secretary of the prime minister's office of Uganda; and the vice minister of the Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Tanzania.

They laid wreaths, floral baskets and bouquets before the portraits of Kim Jong Il and paid a silent tribute to him.