calendar>>December 24. 2014 Juche 103
Floral Tribute to Statues of Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- All service personnel and people of the DPRK are extending highest tribute and eternal glory to the peerless great men of Mt. Paektu on December 24, the 23rd anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's assumption of the supreme commandership of the Korean People's Army (KPA).

Service personnel of the KPA and the Korean People's Internal Security Forces (KPISF), people from all walks of life, school youth and children here visited the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill and paid 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 National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the KPA.

Laid before the statues were floral baskets in the name of the party, armed forces and power bodies, public organizations, ministries and national institutions, units of the KPA and the KPISF, institutions, enterprises, factories, farms and schools at all levels, bouquets and flowers.

The participants made bows to the statues in humblest reverence.

Laid before the statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at Kim Il Sung Military University, the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces, the Ministry of People's Security, Mangyongdae Revolutionary School, the Mansudae Art Studio and other places in Pyongyang and before the portraits of smiling Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il were floral baskets in the name of KPA units, institutions and enterprises, and bouquets and flowers.

Service personnel, working people and school youth and children across the country visited the statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and portraits of smiling Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in their residential quarters to pay floral tribute to them.

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