They laid floral baskets, bouquets and flowers before the portraits of smiling President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il and art works depicting them standing together and bowed to them.

They included the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Nepal Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) who is ex-deputy prime minister of Nepal and other Nepalese personages, the chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Bangladesh and Bangladeshi personages, the chairman of the Mongolia-Korea Friendship Society and Mongolian personages, the acting general secretary and members of the Democratic Rally of Africa-Democratic Party of Guinea, the vice-director of the International Department of the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea and his party, the chairman of the Egypt-Korea Friendship Association, and the chairman of the Permanent Standing Committee of the Belarus National Association of Friends of Korean People Named after Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

Meanwhile, the director of the Central Secretariat of the Pakistan People's Party sent a bouquet to the DPRK mission in Pakistan on Dec. 15 on the same occasion.