Pyongyang, August 16 (KCNA) --
Accompanying him were senior officials of the Central Committee of the WPK and Choe Son Hui, foreign minister of the DPRK, and commanding officers of armed forces organs.
The guard of honour of the Korean People's Army lined up in front of the tower.
The national anthems of the Russian Federation and the DPRK were played.
A wreath in the name of
Written on the ribbon of the wreath were letters reading "We do not forget the exploits of the fallen martyrs of the Soviet Army".
There was a march-past of the KPA guard of honour.
He said that the militant friendship and solidarity forged between the service personnel and peoples of the two countries in the sacred war against the common enemy fully demonstrated their invincibility and eternal vitality in the protracted course of struggle to foil the imperialists' arbitrary practices and hegemony.
He said that the good history, tradition and ties of kinship spanning more than 80 years serve as the basic cornerstone to develop the DPRK-Russia relations of friendship and cooperation into the most solid comradely relations and comprehensive strategic partnership and as the inexhaustible strength propelling the building of powerful states in the two countries and the creation of a multi-polarized new world.
He expressed belief that the great friendship and solidarity between the peoples of the DPRK and Russia, who built the forward-looking ties between the states and are struggling shoulder to shoulder for the common purpose, would be creditably carried forward and developed along with the noble soul of the forerunners of the two countries and with the new era of overall heyday.