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

Among those personages from governments, parliaments, political parties, organizations and institutions were the head of the Russia-DPRK Friendship Parliamentary Group of the State Duma of Russia who is secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the chairperson of the Party for Peace and Unity of Russia, the first secretary of the Khabarovsk Territorial Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the first secretary of the Khabarovsk Territory Committee of the Lenin Young Communist League of the Russian Federation, the head of the Academy Ensemble of the National Guard of the Russian Federation, the head of the Orchestra of the 21st Century of Russia, the chairperson of the Maritime Territorial Branch of the All-Russia War Veterans' Social Organization "Militant Fraternity", the acting editor-in-chief of the newspaper Primorskaya Gazetta, the deputy head of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, the vice-minister of Higher Education who is the chairperson of the Cuban Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification, the director for Asian and Oceanic affairs of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, the president of the Prensa Latina News Agency, the Syrian minister of Finance, the president and vice-president of the Syrian Trade Unions Federation, the senior leader of the Indian People's Party, the vice-chairperson of the Red Crescent Society of Kuwait, the chairperson of the Organizational Committee of the Communist Workers' Party of Belarus, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus, the chairperson of the Permanent Standing Committee of the Belarus National Association of Friends of Korean People Named after Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, the chairperson of the Belarus Association for the Study of Juche Idea, the chief of the Vitebsk Juche Pedagogy Association of Belarus, the president of the International Group of Italy, the former secretary general of the Commission for Foreign Affairs of the Senate of Italy, the acting general secretary of the Democratic Rally of Africa-Democratic Party of Guinea, the chairperson of the Alliance for Resurrection and Development of Guinea, the national secretary of the People's Progressive Party of Nigeria, the chairperson of the Nigerian National Committee for the Study of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, the chairperson of the Nigeria-Korea Friendship Association, the deputy general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of DR Congo, the chairperson of the National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea of Democratic Congo, the general secretary of the Workers' Party for the Independence of Senegal, and a member of the Political Bureau of the Socialist Party of Senegal.

And the vice-chairperson of the External Affairs Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, a vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam, the chairperson of the Vietnam-DPRK Friendship Association, the first vice-minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of Syria, a member of the Central Leadership of the Syria's Baath Arab Socialist Party, a member of the Political Bureau of the Nationalist Socialist Party of Syria in Lebanon, the director for Foreign Relations of the Central Committee of the Popular Liberation Movement of Angola, the chairperson of the Ethiopian Committee for the Study of the Independent Politics and other personages paid congratulatory visits to the DPRK missions in their countries.

Meanwhile, floral baskets and bunches of flowers were sent to the DPRK missions by the External Affairs Commission of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Public Security, the Central Committee of the Fatherland Front, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the Central Committee of the Farmers Union, the Academy of Social Sciences and the newspaper Nhan Dan in Vietnam, the Vietnam-DPRK Friendship Association, the Vietnam-DPRK Friendship Kindergarten, the Staff of the General Command of Armed Forces of Iran, the Communist Party of India, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the All-India Forward Bloc, the Sweden-Korea Friendship Association, the Swedish Group for the Study of the Juche Idea, the Committee for Peace and Reunification of the Korean Peninsula of Sweden, the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), the Uganda National Resistance Movement, the director-general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea, the vice-director general of the Asian Regional Institute of the Juche Idea, the minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Mongolia, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka, the secretary general of the Sweden-DPRK Cultural Exchange Association, the national leader of the Workers' Party of Mexico, the general secretary of the Central Committee of the People's Socialist Party of Mexico, the chairperson of the Mexican Committee for Supporting Korea's Peace and Reunification, the chairperson of the Mexican Institute for the Study of the Juche Idea and others.

On the occasion of the 110th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung and the 10th anniversary of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un's assumption of the top posts of the Party and the state, congratulatory visits to the DPRK missions were made by the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Nepal Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), the chairperson of the Nepalese Family Party, the chairperson of the Nepal Journalist Association for the Study of the Juche Idea and Songun Politics, the chairperson of the International Committee for the Study of Songun Politics for Peaceful Reunification of Korea in Nepal, the editor-in-chief of the Nepalese newspaper Gorkha Express, the secretary general of the Nepalese Association for Supporting the Songun Politics, the secretary general of the Nepal-DPRK Center for the Study of Socialism, the chairperson of the Syria-Korea Friendship Parliamentary Group and other personages.