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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.
NBC News, msnbc.com staff and news services report:
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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.
NCTV / AFP - Getty Images
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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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!!"
Not so amazing. You must remember that for the most part the current generation has known NO OTHER LEADER. All this one and his cohorts ever preached was that he was in the process of MAKING THINGS BETTER for his people.
Therefore it is EASY to understand when they had no alternatives for comparison,why so many people are TRULY sad that their only leader who was doing SO MUCH GOOD for them is now gone
Ya wanna say wow what a bunch of brain washed neanderthals. Another part of ya looks at the KIm family with envy, they are GODS! That guy that just died never lived a day in which he wasn't looked upon by his people as a GOD! Had access to the finest women, wine, silk...etc.. every day of his life!
But look at us? THose North Koreans are uneducated farmers, have no access to GOOGLE, the information age, etc. etc.
OUr POliticians use methods of persuasion that are every bit as effective as the ones employed by the North Korean Regime. Even More so! Just watch the televised Debates... These are Bafoons, spewing Propaganda everybody in the audience knows is BS. Yet few of them care. They believe what they've been conditioned to Believe. Just as the Norht Koreans do.
Its those three fingers pointing back... always the three fingers pointing back at the Real dummy!