Pyongyang, February 9 (KCNA) -- Officials, service personnel, working people, youth and students of the DPRK paid floral tribute to the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il in different parts of the country on the occasion of the 77th founding anniversary of the Korean People's Army (KPA).

Laid before the statues of the great leaders on Mansu Hill were floral baskets in the names of the Party, power and armed forces organs, ministries, national agencies, units of the KPA and the Public Security Forces (PSF), factories and universities.

The visitors paid tribute to the statues of the great leaders.

Floral baskets in the names of units of the KPA and the PSF, institutions and enterprises were laid before the statues of the great leaders at Kim Il Sung University and in other parts of Pyongyang.

And officials, service personnel, working people, youth and students across the country visited the statues of the peerlessly great men in their residential areas to pay tribute to them. -0-