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Ng Han Guan / AP
North Koreans bow before the statues of late leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and his son Kim Jong Il, at Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Dec. 17.
Ng Han Guan / AP
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, attends a ceremony to reopen the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Dec. 17, 2012. Kim solemnly reopened the sprawling, granite mausoleum where his father's body lies in state as the nation marked the first anniversary of his death.
Kyodo / Reuters
North Koreans observe a moment of silence at Mansudae in Pyongyang, on the first anniversary of Kim Jong Il's death on Dec. 17.
North Korea marked the first anniversary of Kim Jong Il's death Monday with sadness as well as celebration over last week's successful satellite launch. North Korea unveiled the embalmed body of Kim Jong Il, still in his trademark khaki jumpsuit, on the anniversary of his death, but cameras were not allowed inside the mausoleum, and state media did not release any images of Kim Jong Il's body.
N. Korea displays Kim Jong Il a year after death
KCNA / Reuters
North Koreans visit the statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il to offer a silent prayer in central Pyongyang on Dec. 17. Picture released by the North's official KCNA news agency.
Ng Han Guan / AP
A North Korean traffic coordinator stands on a roadside near portraits of late leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il during a foggy morning on Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, on Dec. 17.
KCNA / Reuters
North Korean officials attend a memorial service for former leader Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang on Dec. 16 ahead of the first anniversary of his death.
AP
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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If the two of them are gods then why don't they raise themselves from the dead? These dictators are now spending eternity in Hell. I am sure without a shadow of a doubt they are living in terror under the regime of Satan and his foes. Their bodies might be buried in the ground but their souls lives on and there are only two places where they go. They were evil men and were cruel to their people. People who have dark souls go to a very dark place.
Millions of their people starving to death, and those who are still alive forced to bow before the fat pigs that rule the country.
There is no God.
Cult of personality, anyone? The old man was a stone phreak...until he got caught, he'd send agents to Japan to kidnap women & female television personalities he became obsessed over. I wonder what Junior's thang is...I just hope there isn't a body count involved.
If they don't bow they are already lined up for the firing squad.
The statues remind me of the Twilight Zone episode of "The Little People". That such egos like this exist in this day and age shows that mankind has never really advanced in North Korea.
Little do they know that someday Walmart will take them over too...