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 the peerlessly great men standing together and bowed to them.

Among them were the chairwoman of the Party for Peace and Unity of Russia, the vice-director of the International Affairs Department of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, the chairman and the first vice-chairman of the Czech Group for the Study and Materialization of the Juche Idea, the Political Bureau of the Workers' Party for the Independence of Senegal, members of the Guinean Rainbow People's Assembly, the chairman of the Ethiopian Committee for the Study of the Independent Politics, the national president of the Working Citizens' Association of DR Congo and the chairman of the Youth Group for the Study of the Juche Idea in DR Congo.

Meanwhile, the secretary general of the Karachi Branch of the Pakistan-Korea Friendship Association and the deputy headmaster of Metropolitan Academy in Karachi, Pakistan sent bouquets to the DPRK mission in Pakistan on Dec. 16 on the same occasion.