calendar>>December 17. 2016 Juche 105
Foreigners and Overseas Koreans Visit Kumsusan Palace of Sun
Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- Foreigners and overseas Koreans visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on Saturday to pay tribute to leader Kim Jong Il on the fifth anniversary of his demise.

They included foreign diplomatic envoys and representatives of the missions of international organizations here, military attaches of foreign embassies and a memorial delegation of Koreans in Japan and a delegation of the General Association of Koreans in China.

At the hall where statues of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il stand, the visitors paid high tribute to the great leaders.

And they made bows to Kim Jong Il at the hall where he lies in state.

They went round the hall where orders he received are on display and the halls that house a car, electric car, boat and train coach used by him for field guidance and foreign tours till the last moments of his life.

On the same day, the chief and members of the Pyongyang mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun to pay homage to him.

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