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Wreaths Laid before Friendship Tower

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 25 (KCNA) -- Wreaths were laid before the Friendship Tower today to mark the 53rd anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteers' entry into the Korean front. Present at the wreath-laying ceremony were Secretary Kim Yun Hyok of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, Vice-Department Director Kim Thae Jong of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Vice-Minister Kim Sang Ik of the People's Armed Forces, Vice-Minister Kung Sok Ung of Foreign Affairs, and officials concerned.
    Chinese Ambassador to the DPRK Wu Donghe and his embassy officials were on hand.
    Lining up at the Friendship Tower were guards of honor of the Korean People's Army. Amidst the playing of the wreath-laying music a wreath was placed at the Friendship Tower in the joint name of the WPK Central Committee and the SPA Presidium and the Cabinet of the DPRK.
    Then followed wreaths in the name of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of People's Security, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and the Ministry of Culture, in the joint name of the Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries and the DPRK-China Friendship Association Central Committee and in the joint name of the Pyongyang City Committee of the WPK and the Pyongyang City People's Committee.
    Also laid there were bunches of flowers from working people in the city.
    The participants observed a moment's silence in memory of the martyrs of the CPV.
    Laid at the cemetery of martyrs of the CPV at Hyongjesan District on the same day were wreaths from the Pyongyang City Committee of the WPK, the Pyongyang City People's Committee, the Hyongjesan District, Pyongyang, Committee of the WPK, the Hyongjesan District People's Committee and a KPA unit.
    Wreaths were also placed at cemeteries of CPV martyrs in Hoechang and Kaesong.
    This day the Chinese embassy here and the Central Committee of the Association of Chinese Residents in Korea placed wreaths at the Friendship Tower and the cemetery of martyrs of the CPV in Hyongjesan District, Pyongyang.
    On the same day, the Chinese consulate general in Chongjin laid a wreath at the cemetery of martyrs of the CPV in Onsong.