calendar>> April 25. 2014 Juche 103
Floral Tribute Paid to Statues of Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, April 25 (KCNA) -- Floral baskets were laid before the statues of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il on the occasion of the 82nd anniversary of the Korean People's Army.

Service personnel, people from all walks of life and school youth and children visited their statues on Mansu Hill to pay profound tribute.

Seen standing before their 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 KPA.

Laid before the statues were floral baskets in the names of the party, armed forces and power bodies, social organizations, ministries, national institutions, units of the KPA and the Korean People's Internal Security Forces, institutions, industrial establishments at all levels, farms, schools, etc.

Service personnel, working people and school youth and children paid tribute to the statues of the peerlessly great men of Mt. Paektu recollecting their army-building exploits.

Many service personnel and people have visited the statues of the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and their smiling portraits in different places of Pyongyang including Kim Il Sung Military University, the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces and the Mansudae Art Studio.

People across the country laid floral baskets, bouquets and flowers before statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and their portraits in their residential quarters.

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