OMG Tiger that old school Soviet Union style funeral
Did they play classical music???
Terse, slow, dispondent, tear jerking announcements at the top of the hour of his death (with sobbing), followed by new announcements of him lying in state at Kumsusang Palace under glass, prefaced by the full laborious announcement of all of his various positions in North Korea; reading thelist of official state party mourners beginning with Kim Jong Eun, military martial (aggressive) music at times; lilting, sad, instrumentals, The March of General Kim Jong il, followed by the Communist Internationale (instrumental), then funeral music, the reading of messages of condolences from world leaders such as Raul Castro, King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia, Hu Jin Tao of China, Mededev of Russia, Chavez of Venezuela, etc. etc. etc., then repeat for another a hour. This can be clearly heard in Japan. Some of it is on tape, because I recognize the same crying in the same method by the announcer in certain stories. It is all inward facing, nothing belligerent toward South Korea, Japan or the US at this point. Simply mourning. 90% of it on the saddness of the departure of Kim Jong il, and 10% (and growing) of the prowess and stability of great leader and genius, young Kim Jong Eun.