calendar>>December 24. 2014 Juche 103
Senior Party and State Officials Pay Tribute to Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il
Pyongyang, December 24 (KCNA) -- Senior party and state officials visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on Wednesday, the 23rd anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's assumption of the supreme commandership of the Korean People's Army (KPA).

Among the visitors were Kim Yong Nam, Choe Ryong Hae and other leading officials of the party and state and officials of the party and power bodies, the Cabinet, working people's organizations, ministries and national institutions.

Seen standing before the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il was a floral basket in the name of 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.

Also seen there was a floral basket in the name of the KPA.

Placed there was a floral basket in the joint name of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the Central Military Commission of the WPK, the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK and the DPRK Cabinet.

The visitors paid high tribute to the statues.

At the immortality halls where Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il lie in state, the visitors made bows to them in humblest reverence.

They went round halls where orders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il received are on display, the mourners' hall and halls that house cars, an electric car, a boat and train coaches used by them during their field guidance and foreign tours till the last moments of their lives.

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