Pyongyang, October 4 (KCNA) -- The Foundation Day of Korea was commemorated with an event at the Mausoleum of King Tangun on October 3.

Present there were officials of the Central Committee of the Chondoist Chongu Party, officials concerned and working people in Pyongyang Municipality.

First there was an ancestral rite for Tangun.

Ri Myong Chol, chairman of the Central Committee of the Chondoist Chongu Party, made a report.

The reporter praised President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il as peerless patriots who correctly formulated the 5 000-year-long history of the nation from the Juche-oriented stand and glorified the time-honored history and culture by finding the remains of the ancestral father of the nation.

The 5 000-year history and precious national heritage of the Korean nation are shedding more brilliant rays thanks to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, the reporter added. -0-