Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Kumsusan Palace of Sun

Pyongyang, December 17 (KCNA) -- All the people in the DPRK are ardently yearning for Chairman Kim Jong Il, who is always alive as their sun, giving inexhaustible vitality to their all-out drive for the victorious advance and accomplishment of the cause of building a powerful socialist country, with their deepest reverence oriented to the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the sacred temple of Juche, on the occasion of the 12th anniversary of his demise.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on December 16.

Accompanying him were Kim Tok Hun, Jo Yong Won and Choe Ryong Hae, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, other senior Party and government officials, leading officials of the Party Central Committee and officials of ministries, national institutions and armed forces organs.

The Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, where President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il, the sacred images of dignified and powerful socialist Korea and eternal leaders of our Party and revolution, lie in state, was wrapped in the solemnest atmosphere.

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

Also laid before the statues were floral baskets in the names of the Central Committee of the WPK, 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.

Kim Jong Un paid high tribute to the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il.

At the hall where Kim Jong Il lies in state, Kim Jong Un made a deep bow of best wishes for immortality to Kim Jong Il who performed the exploits of great significance in human history, waging a heroic struggle under the uplifted red flag of Juche during his long revolutionary guidance, and thus laid a solid foundation of dignity and prosperity for the WPK and the DPRK to win a victory after another forever.

All the visitors made a solemn pledge to surely achieve a new victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche with redoubled fortitude and resolute executive power in the van of the sacred struggle for the overall prosperity and epoch-making development of their socialist state, remaining single-mindedly loyal to the idea and leadership of Kim Jong Un. -0-