Party and Government Delegation of PRC Visits Cemetery of CPV Fallen Soldiers

Pyongyang, July 17 (KCNA) -- A party and government delegation of the People's Republic of China led by Wang Huning, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, on an official goodwill visit to the DPRK laid a flower basket at the Cemetery of the Fallen Soldiers of the Chinese People's Volunteers in Sunan District, Pyongyang Municipality on Thursday.

Present there 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 Son Gyong, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, and Wang Yajun, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK.

The guard of honor of the Korean People's Army lined up there.

The national anthems of the People's Republic of China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea were played.

The flower basket in the name of the delegation was placed before the cemetery.

Written on the ribbon of the flower basket were letters reading "The martyrs of the Chinese People's Volunteers will be immortal".

The participants paid silent tribute to the memory of the martyrs of the Chinese People's Volunteers and went round the cemetery. -0-