calendar>>September 9. 2012 Juch 101

Senor Party and State Officials Pay Respects to Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il

Pyongyang, September 9 (KCNA) -- Senior party and state officials including Kim Yong Nam and Choe Yong Rim, the chairperson of a friendly party and officials of the party, armed forces and power organs, working people's organizations, ministries and national institutions visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on Sunday, the 64th anniversary of the DPRK, to pay respects to President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il.

Set up on ether side of their statues were flags of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and the DPRK and military colors. Guards of honor of the ground, naval and air and anti-air forces of the Korean People's Army (KPA) and the Worker-Peasant Red Guards lined up there.

Seen before the statues was a floral basket sent by Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the WPK, first chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission (NDC) and supreme commander of the KPA.

There was also a floral basket in the name of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces.

A floral basket was laid there in the joint name of the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the WPK, the DPRK NDC and the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly and the Cabinet of the DPRK.

The participants paid respects to Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, who led the DPRK to the road of independence, Songun and socialism, holding aloft the banner of the Juche idea to turn it into an invincible political, ideological and military power.