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epa03044553 A photo released by the (North) Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on 29 December 2011 shows the North's new leader Kim Jong-un (C, front), his uncle Jang Song-thaek (behind Kim) and Chief of General Staff of the Korea People's Army Ri Yong-ho (R) accompany the hearse carrying the coffin of the late leader Kim Jong-il, during his funeral procession in Pyongyang, North Korea, 28 December 2011. Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans lined the route of Kim Jong il's funeral cortege in snowfall as the leader's body was driven through the streets of Pyongyang. Kim Jong-il died 17 December 2011 of a heart attack aged 69, state media said. He had led the secretive communist state for 17 years. EPA/KCNA