Wreaths laid in cemeteries
KCNA
Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Senior officials of the party, the state and the army, servicepersons and working people laid wreaths in the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery on Mt. Taesong and the Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery on Friday morning on the occasion of the 71st birthday of the heroic Korean People's Army (KPA).
Seen on the wreath-laying stands of the cemeteries were wreaths sent by Kim Jong Il, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and Supreme Commander of the KPA.
Guards of honor of the KPA lined up at the cemeteries.
Attending the wreath-laying ceremonies were Kim Yong Nam, Hong Song Nam, Kim Il Chol, Jon Pyong Ho, Kye Ung Thae, and other senior officials, officers and men of the KPA and working people in Pyongyang.
Wreaths were laid in the name of the WPK Central Committee, the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK and its cabinet.
Wreaths were also laid in the name of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces, working people's organizations, ministries, national institutions, KPA units, institutions in the fields of science, education and the press, party and power bodies, factories and farms in Pyongyang.
Written on the ribbons of the wreaths were letters "Glory to the revolutionary martyrs" and "Glory to the patriotic martyrs".
Bouquets and flowers were also placed in the cemeteries.
The participants observed a moment's silence in memory of the revolutionary martyrs and the patriotic martyrs.
Wreaths were placed before the statues of martyrs, the monuments to the fallen fighters and graves of martyrs across the country on Friday morning.
That day the military attaches corps here laid a wreath at the revolutionary martyrs cemetery on Mt. Taesong and bunches of flowers before the bust of Kim Jong Suk, an anti-Japanese war woman hero, in the cemetery.
The military attaches corps also laid a floral basket before the monument to victory in the fatherland liberation war.
