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

The Sojang Club, where the bier of the deceased was laid, was wrapped in bitter grief over the demise of Comrade Kim Yong Nam, a veteran revolutionary 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 guards 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 (WPK), 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.

The 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 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 Comrade 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 of our socialist state.

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

Comrade 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.

Comrade Kim Jong Un was standing at the entrance to the cemetery together with the 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 went up the cemetery.

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

Comrade 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.

Comrade Kim Jong Un paid silent tribute in memory of the late Comrade 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 noble soul and revolutionary spirit of Comrade 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 DPRK.

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