Accompanying him were members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK.

Amid the playing of dirge, the hall was wrapped in a sorrow over the loss of a veteran of our Party and the revolution, a prestigious theoretician and a prominent political activist who made great contributions to firmly defending and glorifying the revolutionary ideology and cause of Juche.

A wreath in the name of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was laid before the bier of the deceased.

Kim Jong Un paid silent tribute to Kim Ki Nam who made contributions to the sacred struggle for the development of the WPK, modeling the revolutionary ranks on the monolithic ideology and the victorious advance of the socialist cause with his transparent view on life, Party principle, high political and theoretical qualifications and spirit of devoted service to the country and its people.

He looked round the bier of Kim Ki Nam with bitter grief over the loss of a veteran revolutionary who had remained boundlessly loyal to the cause of the WPK till the last moments of his life as a competent official in the Party's ideological field and devoted himself to consolidating the single-minded unity across the Party and society centered on the Party Central Committee in every way and to the Party's ideological building and strengthening of its leadership ability.

He expressed deep sympathy to the bereaved family and consoled them.