Among them were Choe Ryong Hae and other senior party and state officials, the chairperson of a friendly party and officials of the party and power organs, Cabinet, working people's organizations, ministries and national institutions.

Seen standing before the statues of the great Generalissimos 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 National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army.

A floral basket in the name of the KPA was also seen before the statues.

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

The participants paid high tribute to the statues, looking back on the revolutionary lives of the peerlessly great men who performed undying feats before the party, revolution, the country and its people and laid an eternal cornerstone for the victorious advance of the revolutionary cause of Juche.

At the hall of immortality where Kim Jong Il lies in state, they paid homage to him.

Then they looked round the hall where orders he received are on display, a mourners' hall and the halls that house a car, electric car, boat and train coach.