(kimjongun) Kim Jong-un marks anniversary of state founder's death with midnight mausoleum visit as personality cult expands

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57% : North Korean leader Kim Jong-un paid his respects at the mausoleum holding the embalmed bodies of his grandfather and father at midnight on Wednesday, the 32nd anniversary of state founder Kim Il Sung's (1912-1994) death.
57% : "Paying respects to the former leaders has been a key occasion for affirming Kim Jong-un's legitimacy and authority since the early days of his rule," Oh said.
56% : The Rodong Sinmun's emphasis on completing the Juche revolution is widely read as an effort to magnify Kim Jong-un's leadership, and the legitimacy of his rule, by routing it through the founders.
54% : Oh Gyeong-seob, a senior research fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification, cast the mausoleum visits as a pillar of Kim Jong-un's authority.
53% : North Korean leader Kim Jong-un pays respects at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on the 32nd anniversary of Kim Il Sung's death, accompanied by party and government officials, on July 8, in this screen capture from North's Korean Central Television on the same day.
52% : The mausoleum visit also came as North Korea works to build up Kim Jong-un's own image on a scale once reserved for the founders.
51% : Kim Jong-un first unveiled "mosaic murals" of himself in 2022, and since 2024, the images have gone up on public streets in busy districts of eight of the country's 14 provincial capitals and special cities, three of them last year, NK News said.

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