Focus on Jong-Il funeral for clues to North Korea’s mood
The secretive state has so far given no details of today’s funeral for its “dear leader” of the past 17 years and has not invited foreign delegations to the event.
But analysts say the regime will, as it did in 1994 when Kim Jong-Il’s own father died, use the event to shore up loyalty to the new leader and will likely mobilise hundreds of thousands of people.
