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Kim Jong Un Visits Kumsusan Palace of Sun
Pyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- 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 (KPA), visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on Wednesday, the 23rd anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's assumption of KPA supreme commandership.

He entered the hall where the statues of the great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il are standing.

The head of the guard of honor of the KPA Ground, Naval, Air and Anti-Air Forces and the Worker-Peasant Red Guards made a salute towards the statues.

Placed at the statues were a floral basket in the name of Kim Jong Un and a floral basket in the name of the KPA.

Kim Jong Un, together with other visitors, paid a high tribute to the statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

Then he entered the hall of immortality where Generalissimo Kim Jong Il lies in state. He, together with other visitors, made bow to the Generalissimo in the humblest reverence.

He went round halls that house train coaches and cars used by Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in their lifetime, the mourning hall, the room where the orders Kim Jong Il received are on display and the halls that house an electric car and a boat he used in his lifetime.

He was accompanied by Hwang Pyong So, Hyon Yong Chol, Ri Yong Gil, Kim Won Hong, Kim Jong Gak, So Hong Chan, Pak Yong Sik, Ryom Chol Song and other KPA commanding officers and commanding officers of all services and units of corps level of the KPA.

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