His noble life and undying feats, to shine long in history of the nation and the revolution, serve as the eternal strength of powerful Korea and the banner of ever-lasting victory, powerfully encouraging the Korean people's steady historic advance toward a new ground for overall prosperity and development despite the unprecedented hardships under the leadership of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).

Officials of the WPK Central Committee, the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) and the Cabinet and armed forces organs visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on the occasion of the nation's greatest memorial day.

The palace, where President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il, eternal leaders of our dignified Party, state and people and great sages of the revolution, lie in state, was wrapped in the most sublime atmosphere.

Seen before the statues of the President and the Chairman there was a floral basket bearing the august name of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

Floral baskets in the names of the WPK Central Committee, the SPA Standing Committee of the DPRK and the Cabinet of the DPRK were placed by the officials of relevant organs.

Officials of the armed forces organs laid a floral basket in the name of the Korean People's Army.

The participants offered noble respects for the statues of the President and the Chairman.

At the immortality hall where Chairman Kim Jong Il lies in state, they made a deep bow of best wishes for immortality to the Chairman who demonstrated the absolute dignity and prestige of the ever-victorious WPK and Juche Korea and laid an eternal cornerstone for building a powerful socialist country, an ideal society for the people, as the most precious review of his sacred revolutionary life.

All the participants renewed their strong will to fulfill the important responsibility and duty entrusted to them by the Party, the country and the people in the van of the gigantic endeavors to provide a decisive guarantee for implementing the decisions made at the 8th Party Congress and open up the phase of a new surge for eventful development of our state, by faithfully upholding the revolutionary idea and leadership of Kim Jong Un.