Pyongyang, September 21 (KCNA) -- Foreign personages of various circles paid congratulatory visits to the DPRK missions in their countries from September 6 to 9 on the occasion of the 75th founding anniversary of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

They laid floral baskets and bouquets before the portraits of smiling President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il and art works depicting the President and the Chairman standing together and paid high tribute to them.

The visitors included the chairman of the China World Peace Foundation, the first secretary of the Khabarovsk Territorial Branch Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the first secretary of the Khabarovsk Territory Committee of the Lenin Young Communist League of the Russian Federation, the chief of the Vitebsk Juche Pedagogy Association of Belarus and economic personages of China, Italy and Nigeria.

Personages of the Democratic Rally of Africa-Democratic Party of Guinea and the Guinean Rally for Resurrection and Development, too, paid congratulatory visits to the DPRK mission.

Meanwhile, personages of various circles and organizations of China and Nigeria, and military attache offices of Lao and Bahraini embassies in Beijing sent floral baskets to the DPRK missions. -0-