Pyongyang, June 28 (KCNA) -- Personages of various circles in different countries paid congratulatory visits to DPRK missions on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il's start of work at the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

They laid floral baskets and bouquets before the portraits of smiling President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il and art pieces depicting the President and the Chairman standing together and paid tribute to them.

Among the visitors were personages of political parties, parliaments, organizations and institutions, including the Islamic Coalition Party of Iran, the All-India Forward Bloc, the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, the Communist Party of Germany, the Belarus Association of Friends of Korean People Named after Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, the Communist Workers' Party of Belarus, the Belarus Association for the Study of Juche Idea, the Belarusian Group for Solidarity with the DPRK, the Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea, the Ethiopian National Assembly, the Ethiopian National Assembly for the Study of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism. -0-