The state funeral for the late Kim Yong Nam, former chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, was solemnly held in the capital city of Pyongyang on November 5.

The Sojang Club, where the bier of the deceased was laid, was wrapped in bitter grief over the loss of Kim Yong Nam, a revolutionary of the older generation who made distinguished achievements in the history of the development of the glorious Party and state.

A flag was hoisted at half-mast and the guard of honour of the Korean People's Army lined up at the state funeral venue.

Present at the funeral were the members of the state funeral committee including members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, officials of the WPK Central Committee, the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, the Cabinet, ministries, national agencies and armed forces organs and the bereaved family of the deceased.

There took place a ceremony of carrying the coffin out of the club amid the playing of the dirge.

Guards of honour solemnly covered the sacred DPRK flag over it.

The participants saw it off, expressing their deepest condolences over his death.

Standing along all the routes to the Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery in Sinmi-ri, a large number of Pyongyang citizens expressed their condolences towards the funeral car out of the sorrow of bidding last farewell to the late Kim Yong Nam, who devoted his whole life to the Party, country and people and the victorious advance of the revolutionary cause of Juche and strove to carry out the honourable mission of demonstrating the dignity and might of our socialist state.

A ceremony of bidding last farewell to the late Kim Yong Nam took place at the Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery in Sinmi-ri.

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, attended the ceremony.