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Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un visits Kumsusan Palace of the Sun to pay homage to President Kim Il Sung

Date: 08/07/2020 | Source: Pyongyang Times | Read original version at source

Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, 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 on the greatest memorial day of the nation (July 8), or the 26th anniversary of the demise of President Kim Il Sung.

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un was accompanied by 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 of the DPRK, and Pak Pong Ju, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, vice-chairman of the DPRK State Affairs Commission and vice-chairman of the WPK Central Committee.

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

The Kumsusan Palace of the Sun where President Kim Il Sung, peerlessly great sage and eternal Sun of Juche the Korean people acclaimed for the first time in the 5 000-year history of their nation, and Chairman Kim Jong Il are preserved in their lifetime appearance was wrapped in a solemn atmosphere.

A basket of flowers was placed at the statues of the President and the Chairman in the name of the Supreme Leader.

Flower baskets were also laid in the name of the WPK Central Committee, the DPRK State Affairs Commission, the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly and the DPRK Cabinet.

The Supreme Leader, together with the participants, paid high tribute to the great leaders at their statues.

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