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Aa car carrying Kim Jong Il's body during the funeral procession in Pyongyang on Dec. 28, 2011.
KRT via Reuters TV
A uniformed man tries to control crowds attending the funeral procession for Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang.
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Kim Jong Un saluting during his father Kim Jong Il's funeral at Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang.
Wailing and clutching at their hearts, tens of thousands of North Koreans lined the snowy streets of Pyongyang on Wednesday as the hearse carrying late leader Kim Jong Il's wound its way through the capital for a final farewell.
Son and successor Kim Jong Un led the procession, which is part of a two-day state funeral. Top military and party officials, including uncle Jang Song Thaek, were also part of the lead group. Continue reading.
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Military personnel bowing their heads during Kim Jong Il's funeral at Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang.
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North Korean soldiers mourning during the funeral ceremony for Kim Jong Il.
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This TV grab taken from Korean Central Television (KCTV) shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C-front) and other top military and civilian officials walking beside the car carrying the coffin of his late father Kim Jong-il on its roof in Pyongyang on Dec. 28, 2011. North Korea began the funeral of late leader Kim Jong-Il, Russian media reported from a snowy Pyongyang, as the grieving communist state bolstered his son's status as "great successor".
KCTV / AFP - Getty Images
This TV grab taken from Korean Central Television (KCTV) shows North Korean new leader Kim Jong-Un (C) and other top military and civilian officials walking beside the car carrying the coffin of his late father Kim Jong-il on its roof in Pyongyang on Dec. 28, 2011.
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This tv grab taken from North Korean TV on December 28, 2011 shows North Koreans mourning during the funeral ceremony for the late leader Kim Jong-Il in Pyongyang.
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This tv grab taken from North Korean TV on Dec. 28, 2011 shows a portrait of the late leader Kim Jong-Il on a car arriving at Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang. North Korean state television began broadcasting the funeral of late leader Kim Jong-Il December 28, with footage of tens of thousands of troops bowing their heads in the snow outside a memorial palace.
KCNA via EPA
News of the North Korean leader's death sparks tears from his followers and concerns around the world as power is handed over to his successor.
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Is that vehicle carrying Kims Coffin a Retro Lincoln Continental, Mercury Marquis or something else?
Does anybody know?
I'm sure it's a Grand Marquis stretched.
It's a Mercury, he died from Mercury poisoning.
It caught my eye, too, Ted. I think it's Richard Nixon's old presidential limo. : )
Other news sites are describing it as a Lincoln Continental. That's what it looks like to me. Sort of ironic, isn't it?
Yes it is Ironic. Another strange thing is putting the Casket on top of a Sedan Versus inside a Hearse.
Seems Low Budget and kind of an after thought but they are a poor country. I know when the departed "Dear Leader" visited China they made the best top of the line Mercedes Limos available to him which kind of reinforces my impression that they are just pawns in a much larger game, a kind of Buffer People to the Capitalists in the South the Chinese were so aghast at.
It is even more ironic that China has many of our jobs today and they have not thrown any N. Koreas way.
Perhaps they want to keep things as they are , for now...
If anyone is STUPID enough not to know all that crap is for show...then you need help!
No kidding. And just look at the gaunt faces of the soldiers compared to the chubby face of the well fed new dear leader. It makes me sick that an entire nation can be held hostage by this creepy family!
I think much of it is very sincere. Psychological indoctrination techniques applied from birth are very powerful in controlling thought. Just look at how many the people in the U.S. think it's OK to deny basic civil rights to people based on sexual orientation.
Have the people of North Korea been brainwashed?
Could another Jonestown be possible at a scale we can never imagine?
North Korea makes George Orwell's 1984 look like a Disney carton.
Scary stuff.
I like to see so surprized people in US about possibility of media propaganda on closed community. Every soldier in Germany know how every day Soviet Union had spreaded propaganda in Berlin. From US side they did it also. But in time of less moving and weak communication or controled communication under full cenzorship it is posible that from State Administration make religion. What majority in US know about Korean religion? What is emotional spirit in isolated community? Let see any isolated tribe and whatever is their leader they will be sad and try to think what could be now in new circumstances...I believe it is real as every prpaganda using media for creating cult of personality can make some leader in God's or King position...
The pictures, while nauseating, make me laugh!! Is N. Korea so backwards as to think that the world would believe these people give a s@#t? Who the hell in this world gives a rat's butt about this guy?!!
I mean who the EFF is N Korea anyway?!! Who gives a @$%# who it's leader is?!!
They better act like they give a @!$%#, or else they and their entire extended family will be shipped off to a work camp, which is just a fancy name for a death camp.
It's just crocodile tears, otherwise they'd be thrown in prison if the populous didn't show grief. Fear is a great motivator.
Perhaps...just perhaps the kid is in an overwhelming state of DUNNO right now and will keep it cool for awhile.
Unless others get his ear and push him sideways.
Is the massage correct- an American car carrying a leader to his resting place? The message I see is that American Forces can do the same for the outmoded North Korean government-carry it to its final resting place.
your soul is required in hell! this is the line used by that guy who shot nino brown to death after trial in NEW JACK CITY. well, little kimmy, you too are human and die like humans and can't take s#!t with you to your grave. welcome to hell kim. it's time to answer for all the human suffering you caused while claiming yourself to God status amongst mortals.
May he suffer eternally in hell!
What a bunch of freaks.
hehe, what great actors.
Kim Jung IL will finally meet his maker - Satan
You got that right.
He is no longer called Kim Jung Il, he is now known as Kim Jung Dead!
it's amazing how thousands of people can be so brain washed!!
whats even more shocking is when, during a moment of lucidity, you realize americans are no different.
Screw the Libetarians too, just be an American.
Emil
They get paid for this
Are you kidding? Maybe in the way of larger rations. And they get to keep their life! Some payment, huh?
The pictures of the masses look like those computer generated shots in movies like Lord of the Rings and Troy.
It would have been a good moment for a low-level nuke. Decapitate the entire leadership while they were in one location.
Paid actors the lot of them.
what would be REALLY cool is if the crowd got whipped into a frenzy and rushed the casket, knocking it over, and the body go tumbling out into the mob like when the Ayatollah croaked
It's kind of odd that North Korea has been so secretive all these years, but now they let the cameras roll for this propaganda show. All the people grieving. Wow.
They're not crying for grief of this dead idiot. They're crying because they're hungry
they cry out of fear not to.
This facade is akin to a Cecil B Demilles' movie where a zillion "extras" are needed for an epic scene. ..."Okay, roll em! Now everyone cry on cue!"
Snow ball fight!
Looks like they got a day off from work. The bright side is they'll probably get off again on the anniversary of his death. :)
Is there a gigantic picture on top of that car?!?!? that just looks so weird.. smh saying wth & wtf while doing the limbo and is like omg! juggling twenty grapes and yeah.. u get the point..
On another note, I think it's time for this regime to end.. the whole big-ass picture on that car is a good example.. so asian, and so old-fashioned.. but is there a way besides letting the country and the citizens rot their brains out to the kim jong is god propoganda? Maybe killing them would do them a favor..
It is a sad day when people are so distraught at the passing of such a brutal dictator. I believe what they are really crying about is the new leader coming to power, look into his eyes, it must be very unsettling for them.
What he will have to say to the world is the next big question.