The funeral: In death, as in life, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s vision will dominate

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Wailing and sobbing mourners beat their chests and dropped to their knees as North Korean President Kim Il Sung's hearse, draped with a red flag and bedecked with white magnolias, crawled through the streets of Pyongyang in 1994.

But even as they cried out on a hot summer's day for the leader they called "Father," they began pledging their loyalty to his son, leader-in-waiting Kim Jong Il, who cut a solemn and somber figure in a dark blue suit, a black band wrapped around his left arm.

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Greg Miller 28 Dec, 2011
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Source: http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=bb757135da4d2427594ec2f2f240f3c5
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