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Floral Baskets Laid before Statues of Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, July 8 (KCNA) -- Service personnel and people visited statues of President Kim Il Sung in different parts of the country on the 18th anniversary of the demise of the President.

Mansu Hill where statues of Kim Il Sung and the late General Secretary Kim Jong Il stand are crowded with people, including service personnel and schoolchildren.

Seen standing before the statues was a floral basket sent by Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army.

Placed before the statues were floral baskets in the name of the party, armed forces and power bodies, social organizations, ministries and national institutions, units of the KPA and the Korean People's Internal Security Forces and institutions at all levels, industrial establishments, farms and schools in Pyongyang, as well as bouquets and flowers.

The visitors made bows to the statues of the peerlessly great men.

A floral basket in the name of the Pyongyang mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front was also laid before the statues.

People from all walks of life laid floral baskets, bouquets and flowers before equestrian statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at the Mansudae Art Studio.

People in various parts of the country visited the statues of the President in their residential areas to pay tribute to him.

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