Massive goodbye to leader

The late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il yesterday received a massive goodbye in the country who ruled for 17 years, with a funeral procession that brought his coffin through the streets of Pyongyang before thousands of people and under the watchful eye of his son and successor, Kim Jong - an.

The procession, followed live by Central television Korea of the North (KCTV), departed at 1400 local time (5: 00 GMT) of the Kumsusan Memorial Palace and toured the most emblematic places of the capital, such as Plaza Kim Il-sung until nearly three hours later to return to the mausoleum.

At the beginning of the route Kim Jong - un, which the announcer of the KCTV referred to as "successor", accompanied the hearse carrying on the roof, over a bed of white chrysanthemums, the coffin black his father wrapped in the flag of the Party of the workers Abría the convoy a vehicle with a large portrait of about three metres high by a smiling Kim Jong-il on foot, u000afollowed by another with a large wreath of flowers on the roof which anticipated the progress of the main hearse, escorted by motorized troops of the armed forces.

"Crying heaven", proclaimed in tears before the cameras of the KCTV one of the military that were waiting along the road the passage of the convoy, in reference to the intense snow which fell continued on the North Korean capital, whose temperatures around zero degrees today. In spite of the climatic adversities, on both sides of the streets where he drove the funeral procession slowly gathered thousands of civilian and military with shot gesture which, in many cases, expressed with cries and striking fanfare their pain.

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