North Korean state ... The official funeral lasts two days, after which late Kim will be laid to rest at Kumsusan Memorial Palace, where his father Kim Il Sung has laid embalmed since 1994.

PYONGYANG, North Korea ... officer Kim Jong Gak also took prominent positions. The early part of Wednesday's funeral ceremony was shrouded in secrecy, as in 1994, when Kim Il Sung died.

Thousands gather in Pyongyang to mourn the death of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, walks beside the convoy carrying ... the funeral of late leader Kim Jong Il December 28, with footage ...

The preserved body will probably be housed in the same memorial palace that contains the remains of his father, North Korean founder Kim Il Sung. For the funeral, Pyongyang was closed to foreign ...

North Korea has begun two days of funeral services for late leader ... and military might that marked the death of Mr Kim's father, Kim Il-sung, in 1994. Kim Jong-un - who is thought to be in ...

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Tens ... in a viewing of Kim Jong Il's body, which is being displayed in a glass coffin near that of Kim Il Sung. Publicly presiding over the funeral proceedings was ...

South Korea's Yonhap News says that: "Kim, who took over North Korea after his father and national founder Kim Il-sung died in 1994 ... clad in a black funeral dress, also announced Kim's ...

For analysis of the political dynamics at play during the funeral of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il ... deferred to his grandfather, Kim Il Sung. INSKEEP: So, less and less power as we heard ...

Meanwhile, that same year, Kim Jong-il was presented with the Order of Kim Il-sung, the most prestigious award given in North Korea ... not named a member of the funeral committee, though he ...

“Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader,” by Suh Dae-sook, was the last good one, published in 1988, six years before Kim’s death. Mr. Tertitskiy’s book appears 37 years later. Yet for all ...