Pyongyang, February 19 (KCNA) -- A congratulatory group of Koreans in Japan led by Kim Chol, chairman of the Hyogo Prefectural Headquarters of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), to celebrate the greatest and auspicious February holiday of the nation, visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun and paid tribute to President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Tuesday.

Members of the congratulatory group paid high tribute to the statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il who laid the eternal foundation for the prosperity of the nation and clearly indicated the road ahead of Chongryon at each stage of the development of the movement of Koreans in Japan with their original ideas and seasoned leadership.

At the halls where the President and the Chairman lie in state, they made bows to them in humble reverence. -0-