Foreign public figures visited the DPRK Missions in their countries between July 3 and 8 on the occasion of the 26th anniversary of the demise of President Kim Il Sung .

They laid floral baskets and bouquets and bowed before the portraits of smiling President Kim Il Sung  and Chairman  Kim Jong Il  and art works depicting  Kim Il Sung  and  Kim Jong Il  standing together.

They included the Chairwoman and Vice- Chairman of the Party for Peace and Unity of Russia, members of the Political Bureau of the Workers’ Party for the Independence of Senegal, the Secretary of the C.C., All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks who is Chairman of the Belarus Association for the Study of Juche Idea, the Chairman of the Organizational Committee of the Communist Workers’ Party of Belarus, the Chairman of the Permanent Standing Committee of the Belarus National Association of Friends of Korean People Named after Kim Il Sung  and  Kim Jong Il , the chief of the Belarusian Group for Solidarity with the DPRK, the Chairman of the February 16 Society for the Study of Juche Idea and Songun Politics of Belarus, the Vice-Director of the International Department of the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea, the former Prime Minister of the Nepalese government, the Chairman of the Nepal Journalist Association for the Study of the Juche Idea and Songun Politics, the Chairman of the Nepalese Literary Forum for the Study of Songun Politics, the Chairman of the International Committee for the Study of Songun Politics for Peaceful Reunification of Korea in Nepal, the Chairman of the Study Forum for Self-Reliance of Nepal, the Chairman of the Nepalese Association for Supporting the Songun Politics, the Secretary General of the Nepal-Korea Friendship Association, the Chairman of the Mongolia-Korea Friendship Society, the President of the J. Sambuu Herders Development Fund of Mongolia, the Chairman of the Mongolian Association for the Study of the Juche Idea-Songun Idea, the Chairman of the Mongolian Centre for the Study of Juche, the Chairman of the Organization for the Study of the Juche Idea of Thailand and the National President of the Working Citizens’ Association of DR Congo.

Meanwhile, the President of the International Group of Italy sent a large floral basket to the DPRK Mission in Italy, and the Chairman of the Central Committee of the Worker-Peasant Party of Pakistan and the Secretary General of the Karachi Branch of the Pakistan-Korea Friendship Association sent bouquets to the DPRK Mission.