Kim Jong Il Expresses Profound Condolences over Death of Yon Hyong Muk
Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)
Pyongyang, October 23 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, Sunday visited the bier of Yon Hyong Muk, alternate member of the Political Bureau of the C.C. of the WPK and vice-chairman of the NDC of the DPRK, and expressed profound condolences over his death. Standing guards of honor at the sides of the bier were families of the deceased and members of the funeral committee.
Guards of honor of the KPA were standing on either side of the bier.
Amid the playing of the dirge Kim Jong Il together with the senior officials accompanying him paid silent tribute to the late Yon Hyong Muk who, firmly armed with the Juche idea of the WPK, the Songun idea, remained boundlessly faithful to the Party and devoted his all to the struggle for the victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche to the last moments of his life and looked round the bier of the deceased.
Then Kim Jong Il met with families and relatives of the deceased and warmly consoled them.
He was accompanied by Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, Vice Marshal of the KPA Jo Myong Rok, first vice-chairman of the NDC of the DPRK and director of the General Political Department of the KPA, Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, Vice Marshal of the KPA Kim Il Chol, member of the NDC of the DPRK and minister of the People's Armed Forces, Jon Pyong Ho, member of the NDC of the DPRK and secretary of the C.C., WPK, and Vice Marshal of the KPA Ri Yong Mu, vice-chairman of the NDC of the DPRK.
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