Pyongyang, December 30 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency released a detailed report Thursday on the past 11 days when the nation mourned the death of leader Kim Jong Il.

The report says:

At noon on last Monday when the news that Kim Jong Il passed away on a running train was released, the whole country and all the fellow countrymen were wrapped in an indescribable sorrow.

A total of 260 million soldiers, people and school youth and children turned out to pay respects to Kim Jong Il.

An endless stream of servicepersons and people visited the statues of President Kim Il Sung, revolutionary sites, monuments and mosaics telling about the revolutionary life and exploits of Kim Jong Il in different parts of the country.

From noon on Dec. 19 to noon the next day a total of more than 5 million crowds visited the President's statues in Pyongyang.

For two days after the announcement of Kim Jong Il's demise, at least 43.92 million people visited mourning stations across the country where they left wreaths, bouquets or flowers, mourning the death of the leader in bitter grief.

A mass crowd converged on mourning centers where huge portraits of smiling Kim Jong Il were set up and adjacent roads and regions across the country, typically Kim Il Sung Square, the plazas of the April 25 House of Culture, the Party Founding Memorial Tower, Pyongyang Indoor Stadium in Pyongyang in the whole mourning period.

People residing in cities and counties traveled some 40 km to their provincial seats to pay respects to the portraits of the smiling leader.

Wreaths placed before mourning stations in Pyongyang alone number more than 400,000.

The dear respected Kim Jong Un, supreme leader of our party and people, led the procession of leading party, state and armed forces officials several times in paying respects to Kim Jong Il lying in state in the Kumsusan Memorial Palace. He also stood guard when he greeted soldiers, Pyongyang citizens and representatives from local areas who came to the palace to mourn the demise of Kim Jong Il.

More than 50 000 officials, servicepersons and people from all walks of life poured into the Kumsusan Memorial Palace to pay respects to Kim Jong Il during the period.

Those officials, working people and school youth and children who stood guards in outdoor mourning centers increased throughout days.

Fish which Kim Jong Il had been concerned about their supply just the day before he passed away have been supplied to Pyongyang citizens overcome with sorrow.

At least 30,000 service stands, more than 10,000 medical posts have been set up across the country where hot soy bean milk, honeyed water, pine needle tea, barley tea and sugared water had been served and mobile medical operations have been active across the country.

Makeshift buildings have been set up and "buses for warming mourners" went on standby here and there.

Strange natural phenomena have been witnessed with a cracking of a sheet of ice on Lake Chon of Mt. Paektu with a loud roar on the morning of Dec. 17 and mysterious glow over Hyangdo Peak and Jong Il Peak on Dec. 19 and 20.

Lightning was witnessed in the snowy sky followed by roaring thunder in Kaesong City. Clouds of Mt. Paektu shape appeared in the sky above Hoeryong City and many other spectacular natural phenomena have been observed in other places.

The army and people rose up, turning the greatest sorrow of the nation into thousand-fold strength and courage.

Officials and working people across the country had requested in unison to erect the statue of Kim Jong Il before anything else.

At least 380 poems and lyrics have been created during the mourning period.

Some 1.2 million young people volunteered to serve the army taking the country as a whole.

About 3 million members of working people's organizations formed more than 10,000 shock brigades and went to the Paektusan Songun Youth Power Station, Mansudae area construction site and Komdok Mining Complex and other places alive with high-pitched drive for a great surge.

Unprecedented innovations have been witnessed in factories, enterprises, co-op farms and scientific and educational institutions across the country.

The eruption of loyalty has been culminated in the national funeral in which people lined up along snow-covered 40-odd km routes in Pyongyang despite freezing cold to bid last farewell to Kim Jong Il.

People vied with each other to take off clothes and mufflers to cover the roads, saying they can not let the hearse for Kim Jong Il pass snow-covered roads. Dramatic scenes were seen as weepers circled the hearse in a desperate bid to stop it from passing by. They cried: General, you can not go leaving the people behind.

There was a national memorial service for Kim Jong Il on Thursday. Similar events were held in provinces, cities and counties.

21-gun salutes boomed for Kim Jong Il and locomotives and vessels and all units with sirens blew whistles all at once and all the people observed a three-minutes silence to pay their respects to him.

The Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly awarded the title of the DPRK Hero to Kim Jong Il reflecting the unanimous wishes of all the soldiers and people.

Following the announcement of Kim Jong Il's demise, south Koreans opened Internet homepages and posted articles reflecting their grief. Many hang portraits of Kim Jong Il and placed wreaths and flowers before them.

Lots of reunification movement organizations, civic, public and religious organizations issued condolence statements and sent condolatory messages.

Civilian level organizations formed mourners groups and clarified their willingness to send mourners groups as part of their active operation to visit the bier of Kim Jong Il.

Figures of all social standings and people in Seoul, Kwangju, Jonju, Taejon and all other places of south Korea strongly called for making condolatory visits and voices calling for sending a "government"-level condolatory group were also heard even from politicians.

Ri Hui Ho, widow of Kim Dae Jung, ex-president of south Korea, and Hyon Jong Un, chairwoman of Hyundai Group, came to Pyongyang to pay respects to the bier of Kim Jong Il. Hwang Hye Ro, co-representative of the Korea Solidarity for Independent Reunification and Democracy, also came to Pyongyang to pay respects to Kim Jong Il.

South Korean media gave broad publicity to the personality of Kim Jong Il as a great man and devoted many programs to the news of the grief of fellow countrymen.

The Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan presented a condolence message to the dear respected Kim Jong Un and lots of mourners delegations came to the homeland carrying the feelings of the Koreans in Japan. Mourning ceremonies took place in Japan wherever Koreans resided.

Koreans in China and Russia visited the mourning centers arranged in the DPRK embassies, the consulates general and consular offices in China and Russia.

Koreans residing in China, Russia, Uzbekistan, France, the U.S. and all other places of the world paid respects to Kim Jong Il in humblest reverence.

Scores of overseas Koreans' delegations also visited Pyongyang during the period.