Pyongyang, August 16 (KCNA) -- Officials, working people, service personnel, youth and students in the DPRK visited the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il in different parts of the country on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Korea's liberation.

Placed before the statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill were flower baskets in the names of the Party, power and armed forces organs, social organizations, ministries, national agencies, units of the Korean People's Army and the Public Security Forces and institutions and industrial establishments at all levels and universities in Pyongyang, and bouquets.

The visitors paid tribute to the statues of the great leaders.

Flower baskets in the names of units of the KPA and the PSF, institutions and enterprises and bouquets were laid before the statues of the great leaders in different parts of Pyongyang, including Kim Il Sung University, the Ministry of National Defence and the Mansudae Art Studio.

Officials, working people, service personnel, youth and students across the country visited the statues of the great leaders in their residential areas to pay tribute to them. -0-