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Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Bier of Choe Thae Bok

Date: 21/01/2024 | Source: KCNA.kp (En) | Read original version at source

Pyongyang, January 21 (KCNA) -- 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 bier of Choe Thae Bok, former secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK who is winner of Order of Kim Il Sung and Order of Kim Jong Il , at dawn of January 21 to express deep condolences over his death.

Accompanying him were secretaries of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Amid the playing of dirge, the hall was wrapped in a sorrow over the loss of a revolutionary fighter faithful to President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il and a veteran political activist of the Party and state who made distinguished contributions to the accomplishment of the revolutionary cause of Juche.

A wreath in the name of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was laid before the bier of the deceased.

Kim Jong Un paid silent tribute to Choe Thae Bok who performed distinguished feats in the sacred struggle for the development of the WPK and the DPRK government with his boundless loyalty to the leader, transparent revolutionary principle and spirit of devoted service to the country and its people.

He looked round the bier of Choe Thae Bok with the bitter feeling of losing an old revolutionary who had grown up to be a competent official in the field of education under the trust and special care of the Party and devoted his all to the implementation of the policy of the Party on science and education, the development of socialist culture and the dynamic advance of the revolutionary cause till the end of his life.

He expressed deep sympathy to the bereaved family and consoled them. -0-

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