He was accompanied by vice-chairmen, directors and leading officials of the departments of the C.C., WPK, and other cadres of the C.C., WPK.

Supreme Leader of the Party, state and army Kim Jong Un entered the hall where the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il stand.

Placed at the statues were a floral basket in the name of the Supreme Leader and a floral basket in the joint name of the C.C., WPK, the WPK Central Military Commission and the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK.

The Supreme Leader paid homage to the statues.

Then he entered the hall where Chairman Kim Jong Il lies in state.

He paid highest tribute to Kim Jong Il who devoted his all to the prosperity of the country and the happiness of the people until the last moments of his revolutionary career.

Looking back with deep emotion upon the sacred life of

Kim Jong Il who performed very precious revolutionary feats for the country and the people, the Supreme Leader said that our Party has adhered to the idea and line of Kim Jong Il and his revolutionary principle and has resolutely struggled to carry out his last instructions for the last seven years like the Party made a pledge before the bier of Kim Jong Il this day seven years ago, and called on the entire Party to fulfill the obligation and duties as his revolutionary soldiers in the future, too, so as to dynamically struggle to implement his plan and desire to the last without an inch of deflection and any concession.