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Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Kumsusan Palace of Sun on Greatest National Memorial Day

Date: 08/07/2021 | Source: KCNA.kp (En) | Read original version at source

Pyongyang, July 8 (KCNA) -- All the people across the country are looking up to the supreme temple of Juche with boundless yearnings and in deep reverence for President

Kim Il Sung on the occasion of the greatest memorial day of the nation.

Kim Jong Un , general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun at 0:00 on Thursday.

Present there were members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and the Party central leadership organ.

The palace where President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il , founder and builders of our great Party and our powerful state, fathers of the nation and the great sages of revolution, lie in state was wrapped in solemn atmosphere.

A floral basket from the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was placed at the statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il .

Placed were floral baskets in the names of the WPK Central Committee, 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.

The respected General Secretary paid deep respects for Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il before their statues together with the participants.

At the halls where Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il lie in state the General Secretary made a bow of best wishes to the President and the Chairman who performed undying feats before the country, the people, the times and the revolution with their profound ideas and theories, extraordinary leadership ability and sweeping revolutionary practices.

The members of the Party central leadership organ made their firm pledge to fulfill their responsibility and duty as backbone of the Party and leading members of revolution in the present gigantic struggle for the progress and development of our style socialism, remaining faithful to the ideology and leadership of the respected General Secretary. -0-

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