calendar>>January 1. 2012 Juch 101
Koreans and Foreigners Pay Respects to Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, January 1 (KCNA) -- Officials of the party, armed forces and power bodies, working people's organizations, ministries and national institutions, anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters, servicepersons, former unconverted long-term prisoners, working people from all walks of life, overseas Koreans staying in the homeland and the chief of the Pyongyang mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front Sunday on the New Year visited the Kumsusan Memorial Palace to pay respects to President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il.

They paid their profound respects to Kim Il Sung.

They paid tribute to the statue of Kim Il Sung. They bowed to him.

Then they paid tribute to Kim Jong Il. They entered the hall where the portrait of smiling Kim Jong Il is displayed. They bowed to the portrait.

That day diplomatic envoys, representatives of international organizations and the military attaches corps here visited the Kumsusan Memorial Palace to pay tribute to Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

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