The country also said it will erect a new?Kim?Jong?Il?statue and build 'towers to his immortality,' while the ruling party called him 'eternal leader' and gave his birthday a new title that underlines his military-first policy and links him more closely to his father,?Kim?Il?Sung, who is still revered as the 'eternal president.'
North Korea said Thursday it will enshrine?Kim?Jong?Il's body in the palace housing his father, the national founder, deepening its veneration of the?Kim?dynasty as the country transfers power to a third generation of the family.
Skip to next paragraphThe country also said it will erect a new?Kim?Jong?Il?statue and build "towers to his immortality," while the ruling party called him "eternal leader" and gave his birthday a new title that underlines his military-first policy and links him more closely to his father,?Kim?Il?Sung, who is still revered as the "eternal president."
The North's state media have sought since?Kim?Jong?Il's death on Dec. 17 to show his son,?Kim?Jong?Un, as a strong, confident military leader, but outside observers are watching to see if he can impose his will over the military and government as strongly as his father did during 17 years of absolute rule.
North Korea has quickly handed?Kim?Jong?Un a slew of his father's prominent titles and repeatedly connected him with his father and grandfather in an effort to add legitimacy to the young leader. North Korea also has stepped up propaganda praising?Kim?Jong?Il's works and vowed to uphold his policies in what is seen as an attempt to justify the hereditary power transfer.
On Thursday, the North's state media called?Kim?Jong?Il?the "eternal leader" ? reminiscent of his father's title ? and said his body will be displayed at Pyongyang's Kumsusan Memorial Palace, where the embalmed body of?Kim?Il?Sung has been lying since 1995, a year after he died.
It was unclear whether their bodies would be in the same room.
The new name for?Kim?Jong?Il's birthday, "Day of the Shining Star," is another link to?Kim?Il?Sung, whose birthday is called the "Day of the Sun."
"Shining Star" also was the name given by North Korea to what it says was a satellite it launched into space in April 2009, but that the United States says was a long-range rocket test. The launch stoked regional tensions and earned North Korea international sanctions and condemnation.
The new measures reflect North Korea's "unanimous desire ... to hold the great leader Comrade?Kim?Jong?Il?in high esteem as the eternal leader of the party and the revolution," the Political Bureau of the Workers' Party's Central Committee said, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
North Korea is boosting "the cult of personality surrounding?Kim?Jong?Il" as it links him with?Kim?Il?Sung, said Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul.
On Thursday, North Korea's state television showed photos of a smiling?Kim?Jong?Un gesturing in a manner similar to his father and wearing a similar parka as he spoke to military officers and inspected construction sites.
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