calendar>>July 8. 2013 Juche 102
Floral Baskets Laid before Statues of Kim Il Sung
Pyongyang, July 8 (KCNA) -- Floral tribute was paid to statues of President Kim Il Sung in different parts of the country on the occasion of the 19th anniversary of his demise.

Service personnel, people from all walks of life and school youth and children visited statues of Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill and paid highest tribute to them.

Seen standing before the statues was a floral basket sent by Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, first chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army.

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

A floral basket in the name of the Pyongyang mission of the Anti-Imperialist National Democratic Front was also laid before the statues.

The visitors made bows towards the statues with boundless reverence for the peerlessly great persons of Mt. Paektu who performed immortal feats before the country and its people, the era and history.

Floral baskets, bouquets and flowers were laid before the statues of the Generalissimos and portraits of the smiling leaders in different parts of Pyongyang.

Service personnel and working people in various parts of the country and school youth and children visited the statues of the President and portraits of the smiling leader in their residential areas and paid tribute to him.

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