Wreaths Laid before Friendship Tower

Pyongyang, October 26 (KCNA) -- Wreaths were placed at the Friendship Tower on October 25 to mark the 76th anniversary of the entry of the Chinese People's Volunteers into the Korean front.

Guards of honor of the Korean People's Army lined up at the Friendship Tower.

Present at the wreath-laying ceremony were Kim Hyong Sik, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, Mun Song Hyok, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Kim Myong Su, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, and other officials concerned.

Also on hand were Qi Han, charge d'affaires ad interim, and other officials of the Chinese embassy here, a delegation of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs of China led by Vice-Minister Hong Zongming, and Chinese guests and residents in the DPRK.

The national anthems of China and the DPRK were played.

A wreath in the joint name of the WPK Central Committee, the SPA Standing Committee of the DPRK and the DPRK Cabinet was laid before the tower amid the playing of the wreath-laying music.

Placed at the tower were wreaths in the name of the DPRK Foreign Ministry, Ministry of National Defence and Ministry of Urban Management, a wreath in the joint name of the DPRK Association for Cultural Exchange with Foreign Countries and the DPRK-China Friendship Association, a wreath in the joint name of the Pyongyang Municipal Committee of the WPK and the Pyongyang Municipal People's Committee and a wreath in the name of the Chinese embassy here.

Written in the ribbons of the wreaths were letters reading "To fallen soldiers of the Chinese People's Volunteers!" and "Fallen soldiers of the Chinese People's Volunteers will be immortal".

Before looking round the tower, the participants paid a silent tribute to the memory of the fallen fighters of the Chinese People's Volunteers who bravely fought, displaying a matchless self-sacrificing spirit, in the sacred war for repelling the imperialist armed invasion, out of their noble internationalist obligation.

Wreaths were also laid at the cemeteries and graves of fallen soldiers of the Chinese People's Volunteers in Anju City and Hoechang County of South Phyongan Province, Onsong County of North Hamgyong Province and Kaesong Municipality.

That evening, the Chinese side hosted a reception to mark the anniversary. -0-