Pyongyang, August 15 (KCNA) -- Foreign personages and Koreans in China sent floral baskets to the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill on the occasion of the 79th anniversary of Korea’s liberation.

The floral baskets in the names of Giancarlo Elia Valori, president of the International Group of Italy, Qiu Shuibo, honorary director of the Board of Directors of the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Foundation, Svetlana Odintzova, member of the foundation, the family of Hwang Paek Ha, a China-resident Korean related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle, Ho Sang Suk, Kim Kum Ja, Hyon Chun Ok and Ryang Kum Hae, members of the Federation of Korean Economic Workers in China, Phyo Song Ryong, chairman of the Association of Korean Businessmen in China,  Sim Chong Song, chairperson of the Association of Korean Nationals in Dandong City of China, Kil Kyong Gap, chairman of the Association of Korean Nationals in Shenyang City of China, the family of Choe Su Jin, a Korean resident in China, Piao Shanhu, general manager of Dandong Huixing Economic Trading Co. Ltd. of China, Manager Ri Hwang and Deputy Manager Ri Kil of the Jiangshan Co. Ltd., Choe Kol, general manager of the Sobaeksu Culture Proliferation Co. Ltd. in Liaoning Province, An Pingnan, representative of the Tianjin Jiujiang Trade Co. Ltd., and Li Chengxue, general manager of the Chengbao Trade Co. Ltd. in Dandong of China, were laid before the statues of the great leaders on August 14. -0-