Pyongyang, December 30 (KCNA) -- Marzuki Alie, speaker of the House of People's Representatives of Indonesia, and his party paid a condolatory visit to the DPRK embassy in Jakarta on December 27 on the demise of leader Kim Jong Il.

They laid a huge wreath before the portrait of Kim Jong Il before paying silent tribute to him.

The speaker said his demise is, indeed, a great loss to Indonesia, too, noting he expressed profound condolences over his demise.

The general secretary of the Party of Labor and the deputy general secretary of the Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Francophone Affairs of Congo visited the mourning station set up at the lodging quarters of the DPRK delegation in Brazzaville on December 26 and 27. -0-