Pyongyang, September 8 (KCNA) -- Overseas compatriots sent floral baskets to the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill here on the occasion of the 76th birthday of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Laid before the statues of the President and the Chairman on Sept. 7 were floral baskets in the names of the family of Hwang Baek Ha, a Korean in China related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, Ri Chae Son, vice-chairperson of the Central Association of Korean Nationals in Russia, Kim Kum Ja, Hyon Chun Ok, Ho Sang Suk, Ju Kye Suk and Ryang Kum Hae, members of the Federation of Korean Economic Workers in China, Pang Yong Son, vice-chairperson of the Association of Young Korean Nationals in China, Phyo Song Ryong, chairman of the Association of Korean Businessmen in China, Kil Kyong Gap, chairman of the Association of Korean Nationals in Shenyang City of China, Sim Chong Song, chairperson of the Association of Korean Nationals in Dandong City of China, the family of Choe Su Jin, a Korean resident in China, Manager Ri Hwang and Deputy Manager Ri Kil of the Jiangshan Co. Ltd., the general manager of Dandong Huixing Economic Trading Co. Ltd. of China, the general manager of the Sobaeksu Culture Proliferation Co. Ltd. in Liaoning Province of China, the general manager and the manager of the Chengbao Trade Co. Ltd. in Dandong of China, Kim Kyong Suk, a Korean resident in China, and other overseas compatriots.

On the same day, floral baskets in names of the family of Zhang Wei-hua, Chinese related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, and the manager of the Heilongjiang Provincial National Economic Development Company of China were placed at the statues of the great leaders. -0-