SEOUL, April 16 ― North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's conspicuous absence from commemorations for his grandfather Kim Il Sung's birth anniversary this week suggests he could be looking to emphasise his own authority over his family's legacy, analysts said. The April 15 birthday of the North's...
Senior officials visit the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun to commemorate the 108th birth anniversary of North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung, in this undated image released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang April 16, 2020. ― Picture by KCNA via Reuters
North Koreans are taught from birth to revere Kim Il Sung and his son and successor Kim Jong Il, father of the current leader, and all adults wear badges depicting one or both men. Since inheriting power in 2011, Kim has always gone to the sprawling mausoleum on the outskirts of the capital on their birth anniversaries.newspaper, the official mouthpiece of the ruling party, did not show him attending, although a floral basket was draped with a banner bearing his name.
But in another departure from normal practice, there appeared to be no outsize basket from Kim before the two men's giant statues in Pyongyang yesterday, when citizens attended to bow before them.
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