North Korea’s army fired artillery salutes while trains and ships blared their horns to conclude Kim Jong-il’s two-day funeral and memorial service.
Yesterday’s ceremony was carefully judged to give the impression of stability and Kim Jong-eun, the former dictator’s son and successor, was flanked throughout by regime veterans chosen by his father to ensure a smooth succession.
Kim Jong-eun appeared on a balcony before a crowd of some 100,000 in a Pyongyang square but did not address the people. Kim Yong-nam, an octogenarian apparatchik who heads the parliament, delivered the funeral oration, saying the ideological heart of the nuclear-armed state would remain the armed forces.
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