Floral tributes mark Kim Jong Il's death anniversary
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North Koreans lay floral tributes on Tuesday (December 16) in front of statues of its founder Kim Il Sung and late leader Kim Jong Il, to mark the third anniversary of the death of Kim Jong Il, the father of the country's current ruler Kim Jong Un.
In video provided to Reuters by the North's official news agency KCNA, which cannot be independently verified, North Koreans were seen laying flowers and bowing in front of the statues on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang.
Under Kim Jong-il's rule, an estimated one million North Koreans died during a famine in the 1990s. Even with good harvests, the state cannot feed its 25 million people.
His son, the young leader Kim Jong Un, believed to be in about his early 30s, has carried out two-long range missile tests and a nuclear weapon test in defiance of U.N. sanctions since he took control three years ago after the death of his father in 2011.
North Koreans lay floral tributes on Tuesday (December 16) in front of statues of its founder Kim Il Sung and late leader Kim Jong Il, to mark the third anniversary of the death of Kim Jong Il, the father of the country's current ruler Kim Jong Un.
In video provided to Reuters by the North's official news agency KCNA, which cannot be independently verified, North Koreans were seen laying flowers and bowing in front of the statues on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang.
Under Kim Jong-il's rule, an estimated one million North Koreans died during a famine in the 1990s. Even with good harvests, the state cannot feed its 25 million people.
His son, the young leader Kim Jong Un, believed to be in about his early 30s, has carried out two-long range missile tests and a nuclear weapon test in defiance of U.N. sanctions since he took control three years ago after the death of his father in 2011.