Flower baskets were sent to the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang on the occasion of the 13th anniversary of the demise of Kim Jong Il by the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, the General Association of Koreans in China, the International Social Confederation of Koreans, the Social Confederation of Koreans in Uzbekistan, the Standing Council of the Korean Federation of Workers in Commerce in Japan, the Federation of Korean Economic Workers in China, the Central Standing Committee of the Korean Youth League in Japan, the Association of Young Korean Nationals in China, the Central Standing Committee of the Union of Democratic Korean Women in Japan, the Association of Korean Women in China, the Central Standing Committee of the Union of Korean Students in Japan, the Association of Korean Nationals in Dandong City of China and the General Association of Traders of Korean Nationality in Dandong City of China.
The flower baskets were laid at the statues of the great leaders on December 16.
On the same day, the art troupe of Korean schoolchildren in Japan placed a flower basket at the statues.