Pyongyang, October 22 (KCNA) -- Foreign figures paid congratulatory visits to the DPRK missions in their countries on the occasion of the 76th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea.

They laid floral baskets and bouquets at the portraits of smiling President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il and the art pieces depicting them together and made bows.

They include the first secretary and the secretary of the Khabarovsk Territorial Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the first secretary of the Khabarovsk Territory Committee of the Lenin Young Communist League of the Russian Federation, the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Nepal Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Nepal Communist Party (United), the chairman of the Nepal Journalist Association for the Study of the Juche Idea and Songun Politics, the chairperson of the Study Forum for Self-Reliance of Nepal, the chairperson of the Nepali Literary Forum for the Study of Songun Politics, the chairperson of the International Committee for the Study of Songun Politics for Peaceful Reunification of Korea in Nepal, the vice-chairperson of the Socialist Journalist Forum of Nepal for the Study of the Juche Idea, the editor-in-chief of the Nepalese newspaper Gorkha Express, the chairperson of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Bangladesh, the chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Bangladesh National Socialist Party, the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist-Leninist), the secretary general of the International Taekwon-Do Association in Iran, the director general of the Department of International Cooperation of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, the director of the Central Secretariat of the Pakistan People's Party, the chairman of the Anti-Imperialist Forum of Germany, 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 first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus, the chairman of the Organizational Committee of the Communist Workers' Party of Belarus, the chairman of the Belarus Association for the Study of Juche Idea, the chief of the Belarusian Group for Solidarity with the DPRK, the deputy general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the DR Congo, the chairperson of the National Committee for the Study of the Juche Idea of the DR Congo, a member of the Political Bureau of the Workers' Party for the Independence of Senegal, a lawmaker from the Socialist Party of Senegal, the chief of a regional group for the study of the Juche idea in Senegal, the director of the International Department of the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea, the chairman of the Ethiopian Committee for the Study of the Independent Politics, and members of the China Dongfangyi Tuozhan Association and a Chinese organization.

The chairman of the Laos-Korea Friendship Association and his party, the general secretaries and members of the political bureaus of the Syrian Communist Party (Unified) and the Socialist Unionist Party of Syria, the general secretary of the France-Korea Friendship Association and his party, a member of the National Leadership of the Brazilian Democratic Workers' Party and the vice-chairman of the Socialist Freedom Party of Egypt also visited the DPRK missions.

Meanwhile, floral baskets and bouquets were sent to the DPRK missions by the Committee for External Affairs of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, the Commission for External Affairs of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union of Vietnam, Newspaper Nhan Dan, the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, the chairman of the Pakistan-Korea Friendship and Solidarity Committee, the national leader of the Workers' Party of Mexico and the general secretary of the Central Committee of the People's Socialist Party of Mexico. -0-