Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) — All the people in the DPRK are ardently yearning for Chairman Kim Jong Il, who is always alive as their sun, giving inexhaustible vitality to their all-out drive for the victorious advance and accomplishment of the cause of building a powerful Socialist country, with their deepest reverence oriented to the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the sacred temple of Juche, on the occasion of the 12th anniversary of his demise.
Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on December 16th.
Accompanying him were Kim Tok Hun, Jo Yong Won and Choe Ryong Hae, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, other Senior Party and Government Officials, leading officials of the Party Central Committee and Officials of Ministries, National Institutions and Armed Force Organisations.
The Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, where President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il lie in State Theur representative statues are sacred images representing a dignified and powerful Socialist Korea through the Eternal Leaders of our Party and Revolution. Indeed, this visit was wrapped in the most solemn of atmospheres!
A floral basket from the Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was laid before the statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
Also laid before the statues were floral baskets in the names of the Central Committee of the WPK, the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, the Standing Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK and the Cabinet of the DPRK.
Kim Jong Un paid high tribute to these Great Leaders whilst standing in-front of the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il.
At the hall where Kim Jong Il lies in State, Kim Jong Un made a deep bow of best wishes for immortality to Kim Jong Il – who performed exploits of great significance in human history – waging a heroic struggle under the uplifted Red Flag of Juche during his long Revolutionary Guidance! Kim Jong Il thus laid a solid foundation of dignity and prosperity for the WPK and the DPRK which will win a Great Victory in the future!
All the visitors made a solemn pledge to surely achieve a New Victory via the Revolutionary Cause of Juche with redoubled fortitude! This will be achieved through resolute Executive Power working in the vanguard of the Sacred Struggle! Therefore, the overall prosperity and epoch-making development of their Socialist State will be established by remaining single-minded and loyal to the ideas and leadership of Kim Jong Un. (End)
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