Pyongyang, November 6 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the Military-Political General Department of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation headed by Director Viktor Goremuikin, vice-minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, laid a wreath before the Liberation Tower on November 5.

Present there were Pak Yong Il, vice-director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army, and Alexei Bartusov, defense attaché of the Russian embassy here.

The guard of honor of the Korean People's Army lined up at the tower.

A wreath in the name of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was placed before the tower amid the playing of wreath-laying music.

The participants paid silent tribute to the fallen martyrs of the Soviet Army before looking round the tower. -0-