In this April 25, 2002 photo from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency, leader Kim Jong Il salutes the people at the military parade by the Worker and Peasant Red Guard that celebrates the 90th anniversary of leader Kim Il Sung and the 70th anniversary of the North Korean People's Army. #

In this 1963 photo from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency, Kim Jong Il (left) poses for a souvenir picture with leader Kim Il Sung and his sister, Kim Kyong Hui. #

In this undated photo from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency, Kim Jong Il leads the firearms training of the February 2nd National Sport Defense team members when he was working at the Central Committee of WPK (Worker's Party of Korea). #

In this photo from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency, Kim Il Sung (right) and son Kim Jong Il observe a miniature (relief map) of Changgwang Street in Pyongyang, North Korea. #

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, right, receives a scarf from a youngster as he and military officials visit a school for orphans in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, on January 1, 1997. #

This picture recieved from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on December 3, 2010 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il visiting the Hamhung Disabled Soldiers' Essential Plastic Goods Factory. Hundreds of photos of Kim giving "field guidance" on official visits to factories, farms, construction projects and schools have been released by the KCNA over the past decade. #

In this Friday October 8, 2010 photo released by Korean Central News Agency, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il listens to a song sung by family members of an artist who just moved into a newly built residential building in Pyongyang, North Korea's capital. #

North Koreans flip colored cards in the seats of the May Day stadium in Pyongyang to create their nation's flag during a performance on August 24, 2011. North Korea's huge synchronized dance and gymnastics show, called "Arirang", includes up to 100,000 participants according to organizers. #

North Korea leader Kim Jong Il, right, looks toward his son Kim Jong Un, while attending a massive military parade to mark the 65th anniversary of the communist nation's ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea on October 10, 2010. #

One of the last photos of Kim Jong Il released before his death. Visiting Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang, left, met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang, North Korea, on October 24, 2011. #

Kim Jong-un (center), son of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (not pictured) visits Mokran Video Company in Pyongyang in this undated picture released by the North's official KCNA news agency on September 11, 2011. #

On December 19, 2011, a tearful announcer dressed in black announces the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on North Korean State Television, in this still image from video. #

South Koreans read extras reporting the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il at the Seoul train station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, December 19, 2011. The headline reads "The death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il." #

Pyongyang residents gather in front of a statue of former North Korean President Kim Il-sung as they mourn the death of his son Kim Jong Il at Kim Il-sung University in Pyongyang, in this photo taken by Kyodo on December 19, 2011. #

A North Korean woman holding flowers walks through a fence to enter the North Korean embassy to mourn the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in Beijing, on December 19, 2011. #

In Los Angeles, California, Korean immigrant Steve Park, 57, points to a photo of Kim Jong Il printed on a newspaper while talking to his friend at a McDonald's restaurant, on December 19, 2011. #

A South Korean man gestures toward a picture of the late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il as he reads the reports of his death on the newspaper company's display board in Seoul, South Korea, on December 19, 2011. #

A South Korean Army soldier uses binoculars to watch Northern side after news reporting about the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il at a guard post in the demilitarized zone between South and North Korea in Goseong, South Korea, on December 19, 2011. #

The sky turns shades of purple over the 105-story Ryugyong Hotel, which remains under construction, as the sun sets over Pyongyang, North Korea, on October 24, 2011. #