Pyongyang, December 26 (KCNA) -- Staff members of embassies of Cuba, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Czech Republic and India and those of missions here of the World Health Organization, the World Food Programme and the United Nations Children's Fund paid respects to the bier of leader Kim Jong Il on Dec. 26.

Amid the playing of solemn music wreaths were laid in the name of the Malaysian embassy and missions of the WHO, the WFP and the UNICEF.

The participants paid silent tribute to the bier of Kim Jong Il who made an undying contribution to the human cause of independence and went round it.

They made entries in the mourners' book.