The national flag was hoisted at half-mast in different parts of the country on the occasion.

Working people, service personnel and youth and students visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun where President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il lie in state, and made a bow in the humblest reverence before the portraits of the smiling great leaders.

People and service personnel paid floral tribute to the statues of the President and the Chairman on Mansu Hill and their statues and the portraits of their smiling images in other parts of the country.

Documentary films dealing with the great personality of the President, the founder of socialist Korea and the father of the Korean nation, and his undying revolutionary feats were aired.

Watching such documentary films as "Our Leader" and "Finding Himself among the People All His Life", officials, Party members, working people and service personnel recollected with deep emotion the great exploits that the President had performed by dedicating himself to the people's everlasting happiness and the country's prosperity, always finding himself among the people.