Will the new team try to keep the lid

Kim Jong-il died cheap moncler of a heart attack on 17 December, aged 69, state media said. His designated successor is his son, Kim Jong-un.

Images from state television on Thursday showed Kim Yong-nam, formally North Korea's number two leader, addressing an enormous crowd in Kim Il-sung square.

Kim Jong-un, described by state media as the "supreme leader of the party, state and army", was on the platform.

Half-mast
On Wednesday, thousands stood weeping and wailing in the snow as Kim Jong-il's funeral cortege passed, images from state television showed.

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Analysis


John Simpson
World Affairs Editor, BBC News, Seoul
The young Kim Jong-un will have the backing and guidance of his uncle, Chang Song-taek, a senior figure in the leadership who is married to Kim Jong-il's sister, Kim Kyung-hee - a general in her own right.

Will the new team try to keep the lid on North Korea as firmly as his father did? It is much too early to tell, but it is a historical truism that a dictatorship is at its most vulnerable when it tries to ease up.

Yet if North Korea maintains its ferocious grip on the lives of its citizens, there is always the possibility that they will finally be pushed too far.

People who visited Nicolae Ceausescu's Romania as late as the summer of 1989 believed that the ferocity of his rule had wiped out the very instinct for moncler for men - Cheap Moncler Jackets personal freedom among ordinary people. But by late December that year they had risen up, and he and his equally tough wife had been executed.

It is a great deal easier to set up a dictatorship than to change the way it operates.

Funeral seeks to unite N Korea
Correspondents say the ceremonies echoed the displays of pomp and military might that marked the death of Mr Kim's father, Kim Il-sung, in 1994.

Kim Jong-un - Mr Kim's third son - cried as he walked alongside the hearse. Tens of thousands of soldiers lined up to bow their heads in homage in the city's main square.

"Seeing this white snow fall has made me think of the general's efforts and this brings tears to my eyes," Seo Ju-rim, a weeping female soldier, told North Korean television.

One of the myths surrounding Kim Jong-il, who had lain in state for 10 days ahead of the funeral, was that he could control the weather.

Kim Jong-un - who is thought to be in his late 20s and who has little political experience - was accompanied by his uncle, Chang Song-taek.

Mr Chang is expected to be a key player as the younger Kim consolidates power.

Kim Jong-il - known in North Korea as the "Dear Leader" - was in the process of formalising Kim Jong-un as his successor when he died.

However, the transition was not complete, leaving regional neighbours fearful of a power struggle in the nuclear-armed pariah state.

Mr Kim's two older sons, Kim Jong-nam and Kim Jong-chol, were not seen at the funeral.

No foreign delegations have attended any of the events. However, UN offices around the world lowered their flags to half-mast http://www.cheapmonclerjacketsfinder.com.