Pyongyang, September 1 (KCNA) -- Foreign guests and overseas Koreans visited the Kumsusan Memorial Palace on Thursday to pay tribute to President Kim Il Sung.

Among them were the delegation of Kyodo News and its affiliated agencies headed by Satoshi Ishikawa, president of Kyodo News, and the delegation of officials of the Korean Democratic Women's Union in Japan headed by Ryang Ok Chul, vice-chairwoman of its Central Standing Committee.

They paid homage in boundless reverence to the President.