Present there were officials concerned, trade union officials, and workers and trade union members in the city.

The participants laid a floral basket and bouquets and made a bow before the statue.

A letter of pledge to Kim Jong Un was read out by Pak In Chol, chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea.

The letter stressed that the revolutionary career of Chairman Kim Jong Il was the most brilliant one of an outstanding leader and peerless patriot who firmly defended the destiny of the country and the people and put socialist Korea on the status of a dignified power despite the stern trials of history.

It expressed the revolutionary will of all the participants to hold the Chairman in high esteem as the eternal leader of the Workers' Party of Korea and the revolution and the sun of Juche generation after generation and to devotedly implement his instructions without any deflection or concession.

All the workers and trade union members, deeming Kim Jong Il's birthplace in the Paektusan Secret Camp their mental pillar, will vigorously carry on the march started in Mt Paektu under the guidance of Kim Jong Un and add glory to the tradition of loyalty of the workers of the former generations and the history of single-minded unity, it pointed out.