calendar>>January 1. 2012 Juch 101
Floral Tribute Paid to Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, January 1 (KCNA) -- Floral baskets were laid before statues of President Kim Il Sung across the country on the New Year Juche 101 (2012).

Visitors to the statue of the President on Mansu Hill included servicepersons, working people of different social standings and school youth and students in the capital city and overseas compatriots staying in the socialist homeland.

Seen there was a floral basket from Kim Jong Un, supreme leader of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Korean people and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army.

Placed before the statue were floral baskets in the name of the party, armed forces and power bodies, social organizations, ministries, national institutions, units of the Korean People's Army and the Korean People's Internal Security Forces, institutions at all levels, industrial establishments, farms and schools in Pyongyang, and flowers.

They bowed in reverence for the President.

Floral baskets were also laid before his statues at Kim Il Sung University, Kim Il Sung Military University, the Ministry of People's Security, the Pyongyang Students and children's Palace and other places.

Servicepersons, people and school youth and children in all parts of the country also visited the statues of the President in their residential areas to pay floral tribute to him.

Placed before the statue of the President on Ryongnam Hill was a floral basket in the name of the Pyongyang mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front.

Members of the Chinese and Russian consulates general in Chongjin city and Chinese residing in the city laid floral baskets and flowers before the statue of the President in the city.

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