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Members of a South Korean mourners delegation, including Hyun Jeong-eun (center), chairwoman of Hyundai Group, pay their respects to the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Dec. 26, 2011. (AP Photo)
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Lee Hee-ho (center), widow of former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, arrives at Kaesong, North Korea, on Monday, Dec. 26, 2011. Mrs. Lee is part of an 18-person group allowed by South Korea to attend the funeral of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il on Wednesday. (AP Photo)
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North Koreans pay their respects to the late leader Kim Jong-il in front of his portrait in Chagang, North Korea, on Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
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A final photograph of Kim Jong-il, released Saturday, shows North Korea's "Dear Leader" in a Pyongyang grocery store with a retinue that includes his son-successor, Kim Jong-un (right on the first step with two riders), Kim Jong-il's sister Kim Kyong-hui and her husband, Jang Song-thaek (two steps behind Kim Jong-un, in light jacket). (Associated Press)
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North Koreans cry as they pay their respects to Kim Jong-il, their late leader, at Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
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North Korean military personnel cry as they visit the Kumsusan Memorial Palace to pay their respects to leader Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
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North Korean defector Park Sang-hak (right) releases a balloon bearing leaflets condemning North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and his son Kim Jong-un during a demonstration against the North at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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Mourners gather in Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011, to pay their respects to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, who died Saturday. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)
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Kyodo News via Associated Press The body of longtime North Korean leader Kim Jong-il lies in state Tuesday in a memorial palace in Pyongyang, North Korea. The Stalinist Northeast Asian nation is in an 11-day period of official mourning.
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The body of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is laid out in the Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/KRT)
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In this image made from KRT television, Kim Jong-un, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's youngest known son and successor, visits the body of senior Kim with top military and Workers' Party officials in a memorial palace in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/KRT)
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Kim Jong-un, third son of late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, is believed to have the mannerisms, personality and ideology of his mercurial father. (Xinhua News Agency via Associated Press)
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A South Korean soldier uses binoculars to watch North Korea from a guard post in the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas in Cheolwon, South Korea, on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, after news of the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Lee Hae-ryoung)
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** FILE ** In this Oct. 9, 2010, photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Kim Jong-un, the third son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, applauds while watching the Arirang mass games performance staged to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the founding of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Yao Dawei)
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South Korean President Lee Myung-bak speaks at the Blue House in Seoul on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, during an emergency meeting of the National Security Council over North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's death. (AP Photo/Yonhap)
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South Korean President Lee Myung-bak (second from right) presides over an emergency meeting of the National Security Council at the Blue House in Seoul on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, after North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's death. (AP Photo/Yonhap)
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In this image made from Associated Press Television News, North Koreans mourn the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in front of a mural depicting Mr. Kim and his father, Kim Il-sung, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/APTN)
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North Koreans cry and scream in a display of mourning for their leader, Kim Jong-il, at the foot of a giant statue of his father, Kim Il-sung, in Pyongyang, North Korea, after Kim Jong-il's death was announced on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/APTN)
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In this image made from television and provided by CCTV, China's state broadcaster, a North Korean man reacts to the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/CCTV)
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Hundreds of North Koreans gather in front of a giant statue of former leader Kim Il-Sung in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011, to mourn the death of Kim Jong-il. (AP Photo/APTN)
