Pyongyang, February 17 (KCNA) -- All the people across the DPRK significantly greeting the greatest and auspicious February holiday of the nation with the pride and honor of ushering in a gigantic era of prosperity, in which the whole country changes under the guidance of the great Workers' Party of Korea, are paying the highest tribute to Chairman Kim Jong Il, the sacred image of socialist Korea and great sage of the revolution.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on February 16, the Day of the Shining Star.

He was accompanied by Pak Jong Chon and Ri Hi Yong, secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK, No Kwang Chol, minister of National Defence of the DPRK, Kim Jae Ryong, department director of the Central Committee of the WPK, and Kim Yo Jong, deputy department director of the Central Committee of the WPK.

The Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, where the eternal leaders of our Party, state and people are preserved in their lifetime appearance, was wrapped in a solemn atmosphere.

A flower basket in the name of Kim Jong Un was laid before the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il.

Kim Jong Un, together with leading cadres accompanying him, paid high tribute to the statues of the President and the Chairman.

At the hall where Kim Jong Il lies in state, Kim Jong Un paid homage to him praying for his immortality in the humblest reverence for him.

He expressed his solemn will to devote himself to the sacred struggle for the eternal prosperity of the country, the security of the people and the promotion of their well-being, always remaining faithful to the revolutionary ideas and cause of the President and the Chairman. -0-