The state funeral for the late Kim Yong Nam, former chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, was solemnly held in the capital city of Pyongyang on Nov. 5.

The Sojang Club, where the bier of the deceased was laid, was wrapped in bitter grief over the loss of Kim Yong Nam, a revolutionary of the older generation who made distinguished achievements in the history of the development of the glorious Party and state.

The flag was hoisted at half-mast and the guard of honor of the Korean People's Army lined up at the state funeral venue.

Present at the funeral were the members of the state funeral committee including members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, officials of the WPK Central Committee, the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, the Cabinet, ministries, national agencies and armed forces organs and the bereaved family of the deceased.

There took place a ceremony of carrying the coffin out of the club amid the playing of the dirge.

Guards of honor solemnly covered the sacred DPRK flag over it.

The participants saw it off, expressing their deepest condolences over his death.

Standing along all the routes to the Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery in Sinmi-ri, a large number of Pyongyang citizens expressed their condolences towards the funeral car out of the sorrow of bidding last farewell to the late Kim Yong Nam, who devoted his whole life to the Party, country and people and the victorious advance of the cause of Juche revolution and strove to carry out the honorable mission of demonstrating the dignity and might of our socialist state.

A ceremony of bidding last farewell to the late Kim Yong Nam took place at the Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery in Sinmi-ri.

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, attended the ceremony.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un was standing at the entrance to the cemetery together with leading officials of the Party and the government when the coffin arrived.

With the remains of the deceased at the head, the members of the state funeral committee and the bereaved family members climbed the cemetery.

When the start of the ceremony was announced, the DPRK national anthem was played.

Pak Thae Song, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK and premier of the DPRK Cabinet made a condolatory address.

Kim Jong Un paid silent tribute in memory of the late Kim Yong Nam together with all the participants in the ceremony.

The remains of the deceased were buried.

A volley was fired in reflection of the high reverence of our Party, state and people for the veteran revolutionary who glorified his precious life with ardent loyalty and genuine patriotism.

The wreaths were laid at the grave amid the playing of the wreath-laying music

All the participants prayed for the immortality of the pure soul and revolutionary spirit of Kim Yong Nam, who made a distinguished contribution to laying everlasting foundations for the eternal victory of socialism of our style true to the cause of the Party, along with the prosperity of the Republic.

Kim Jong Un paid his respect to all the patriotic martyrs, who glorified their heroic life with firm confidence in the victory of the revolution and fervent patriotism, before the monument to the patriotic martyrs of the cemetery.