On Monday, December 16th, a memorial event was held at the DPRK Embassy in Moscow dedicated to the day of mourning for the Eternal Chairman Kim Jong Il.

The heads and representatives of Korea-friendly organizations alternately laid flowers at the instant panel in the embassy lobby. Comrade Alexander Mostov, the head of our organization, also took part in the flower-laying ceremony and bowed, expressing his deepest respect for the blessed memory of the great leaders of the Korean people.

The guests went to the embassy's main meeting room.

The meeting began with a moment of silence in memory of comrade Kim Jong Il.

Sincere performances by various participants in the event took about an hour and a half.

The speeches were made by the Chairman of the International Union of Public Organizations of Koreans Kim Felix Petrovich, the Chairman of the Party of Peace and Unity Sazhi Umalatova, the head of the "Orchestra of the XXI Century" Pavel Borisovich Ovsyannikov, and the deputy head of the 1st Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maxim Gennadyevich Volkov.

After all the speeches, the Chargé d'Affaires of the Embassy of the DPRK, Zin Jong Hyup, thanked the guests for the words of solidarity expressed in memory of the great Kim Jong Il.