Pyongyang, February 16 (KCNA) -- Koreans in China paid floral tribute to the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill here on February 15 on the occasion of the 83rd birth anniversary of Kim Jong Il.

They included Sim Chong Song, chairperson of the Association of Korean Nationals in Dandong City of China, and its leading members.

They laid floral baskets at the statues of the great leaders, who devoted themselves to the prosperity of the country and people's happiness and made immortal contributions to the development of the Juche-oriented overseas compatriots' movement, and paid tribute to them.

On the same day, floral baskets in the name of the Association of Korean Nationals in Dandong City of China, the General Association of Traders of Korean Nationality in Dandong City of China and Kim Tong Ryon, general manager of the Hunchun Yongdong Export and Import Co. Ltd. in Jilin Province of China, were placed at the statues. -0-