Watching Central TV live right now via UStream (this is blocked in some countries I know). they are showing a documentary on KJI, the usual drivel, very emotional, and narrated by none other than **Pyongyang Patty**, the national North Korean elite TV announcer. I saw an earlier view of the Kim Il Sung Square with hundreds of thousands in the usual formation, so not sure if “festivities” (oops, could be executed in DPRK for using that word) to recall the demise of KJI two years ago to this date, starts at 1:00 p.m. local, or if it is ongoing and they are just airing the documentary of Kim Jong il’s great deeds simultaneous. Some weird vintage footage of Kim Jong il “looking at stuff.” It is going past the 1:00 p.m. hour, so not sure what is happening on the ground there. I hoped to get a view of the Politboro up close and see who and who is not there, around Kim Jong Un today.
However, correcting my ealier observation, there IS a still photograph showing the WIFE of Kim Jong Un accompanied her husband to the mausoleum of Kim Jong il on the 2 year anniversary of his death. I wonder about these stills, when taken, but they do appear to show her (Ri) involved in at least one event publicly today (12/17), the appearance to see the corpse, but not at the major party commemorative event. So we at least know she is alive.