Service personnel and people of the DPRK visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the sacred temple of Juche, to pay homage to President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il.

Service personnel and working people who visited statues and smiling portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il across the country, such as Mansu Hill, Kim Il Sung University, the Ministry of National Defence, the Ministry of Public Security, laid floral baskets, bouquets and flowers and paid their respects to them.

Service personnel, working people and students who visited the Oun Revolutionary Site deeply grasped the feats the Chairman performed in comprehensively synthesizing and systematizing the Juche-based military ideology, theory and tactics, created by the President, and guiding the work to firmly prepare university students to be successors to the Juche revolution strong in both pen and sword through his energetic ideological and theoretical activities during the days of military training in camp.

Working people, youth and students of South Phyongan and Kangwon provinces implanted in their mind the personality of the Chairman as a heaven-sent great man who stoutly defended the destiny of the country, the people and socialism under the uplifted banner of Songun at the Ssangun-ri Revolutionary Site and Cholryong Revolutionary Site.

Flag-raising ceremonies were held across the country.

On the significant holiday, a men's soccer tournament for the Torch Cup took place at the Kim Il Sung Stadium and a drama "Devoted Service" was given at the National Theatre.

Happiness-filled laughter of the people reverberated at the cultural and leisure centers across the country.

Dancing parties of youth and students were held in the capital city of Pyongyang, North Hwanghae Province and North Hamgyong Province and other parts of the country.