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Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un Visits Kumsusan Palace of Sun

Date: 08/07/2020 | Source: KCNA.kp (En) | Read original version at source

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Pyongyang, July 8 (KCNA) -- All the people and service personnel across the country pay the noblest respect and wishes for eternal life towards the sacred temple of Juche with ardent yearnings and in boundless reverence for the father of the nation on the occasion of the 26th anniversary of demise of President Kim Il Sung.

Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the armed forces of the DPRK, visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun.

Accompanying the Supreme Leader were Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, first vice-chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, and Pak Pong Ju, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, vice-chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and vice-chairman of the WPK Central Committee.

Also accompanying him were Kim Jae Ryong, member of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK, member of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and premier of the Cabinet, and members of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, members and alternate members of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK and members of the Central Military Commission of the WPK.

The Kumsusan Palace of the Sun where President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il, great sages and eternal sun of Juche acclaimed by the Korean people for the first time in the 5 000-year-long history of the Korean nation, lie in state was wrapped in solemn atmosphere.

Placed at the statues of the President and the Chairman was a floral basket in the name of the Supreme Leader.

Also laid were floral baskets in the names of the C.C., WPK, the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK and the Cabinet of the DPRK.

The Supreme Leader, together with the participants, paid high tribute to the statues of the President and the Chairman.

At the immortality halls where the President and the Chairman lie as in their lifetime he paid the highest tribute to them who had ushered in the new history of an independent and powerful country and performed unparalleled gigantic feats before the country, people, era and revolution, in the greatest reverence.

The participants hardened their iron will to uphold the revolutionary idea and feats of the President and the Chairman and fully demonstrate to the whole world the might of the powerful and dignified socialist Korea where the dream and ideal of the people come true under the leadership of the Supreme Leader. -0-

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