calendar>>December 17. 2019 Juche 108
Overseas Koreans Pay Tribute to President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- The group of Koreans in Japan for expressing thanks to the homeland led by Kim Won Hwan, advisor to the Central Measure Committee for National Education of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, and other overseas Koreans staying in the homeland visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on Tuesday, the 8th anniversary of the demise of Chairman Kim Jong Il.

They paid high tribute to the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il.

At the hall where Kim Jong Il lies in state they paid homage to him.

They made rounds of the hall where orders Kim Jong Il received are on display and the halls which house a car, electric car, boat and train coach he used during field guidance and foreign tour till the last moments of his life.

On the same day, the chief of the Pyongyang mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front and members of the mission visited the palace to pay tribute to Kim Jong Il.

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