Pyongyang, December 18 (KCNA) -- Along with the days of December, all the people in the DPRK are ardently yearning for Chairman Kim Jong Il who devoted his noble life to accomplishing the sacred cause of the prosperity of the country and the wellbeing of the people.

Officials, working people, service personnel, youth and students laid flower baskets and bouquets before the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il in different parts of the country on the occasion of the 14th anniversary of demise of Kim Jong Il.

Placed at the statues of the great leaders on Mansu Hill were flower baskets in the name of the Party, power and armed forces organs, social organizations, ministries and national agencies, units of the Korean People's Army (KPA) and the Public Security Forces (PSF) and institutions, enterprises and factories at all levels and universities in Pyongyang, and bouquets.

The visitors paid homage to the statues of the President and the Chairman.

Flower baskets in the name of units of the KPA and the PSF and institutions and enterprises were placed before the statues of the great leaders in various parts of Pyongyang, including Kim Il Sung University and the Mansudae Art Studio.

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