Personages from various units, including the anti-corruption and public security committee of the Russian Federation and the Academy of Social Sciences of Vietnam, laid floral baskets before the art works depicting President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il standing together, and made a bow.

Meanwhile, the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry, the Newspaper Nhan Dan, the Vietnam-DPRK Friendship Association and the National Guidance Council of the Indonesian Rural Reconstruction Movement Party and a senator of Pakistan sent floral baskets and bouquets to the DPRK missions in their countries on the occasion of the 12th anniversary of demise of Kim Jong Il.