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The focus is on the Korean Peninsula.

First, let's take a look at the news of North Korea holding a large-scale funeral.



Correspondent Kim A-young.



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North Korea recently held a bureaucracy with General Kim Jong-un as chairman of the funeral service.



It was a funeral for a person named Hyeon Cheol-hae, a general adviser to the Ministry of National Defense, and it was very respectful.



Early on at the Pyongyang 4.25 Cultural Center.



General Secretary Kim Jong-un, who visited the burial place with the officials, paid tribute to him with a sad face, then put a strap on his shoulder and moved the coffin himself.



[Chosun Central TV (Reported on the 23rd): Unable to contain the pain of a great loss, carrying the eternity of the deceased…

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At the funeral ceremony, he refuses to even use a shovel and sprinkles soil with his hands, but Chosun Central TV shows this scene with an effect.



General Secretary Kim even walked with his lorry at the time of Kim Jong-il's death in December 2011.



However, it is unusual for a person who is not of direct lineage to be transported.



Hyeon Chol-hae, an elder in the military, is known to have been in charge of educating Kim Jong-un's successor, and this seems to reflect this special relationship.



[(Comrade Hyeon-cheol-hae) has the absolute belief that our revolution should only be passed down through the lineage of Baekdu, and that there is only Comrade Kim Jong-un, the faithful successor of the leader's revolutionary cause.]



Even if it is not as ungu, Kim Jong-un is the elders There are many examples of special funeral arrangements.



In November 2015, it is the funeral of Ri Eul-seol, a former leader of the so-called anti-Japanese partisan.



At this time too, Kim Jong-un assumed the chairmanship of the funeral service and held the ceremony in the form of a chieftain.



[Hwang Pyong-seo/Director of the General Political Bureau of the Army at the time (November 2015): He ordered the entire army to float flags and took measures to put the remains of comrades in the tomb of the martyrs of the Daeseong Revolution.]



Touch the body directly or , crying with a bitter face, and holding the hands of the bereaved to share their condolences are scenes that can often be seen.



These elders have in common that they have played a key role in the North Korean regime during the Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il eras.



Therefore, paying attention to the last path of the elders also means emphasizing the so-called legitimacy of one's predecessors.



Could it be called Kim Jong-un's funeral politics?