【新唐人2011年12月30日讯】随着朝鲜独裁者金正日的葬礼结束，他17年的铁腕统治也宣告落幕。引起全世界关注。12月29号举行的金正日追悼大会，宣布他的小儿子金正恩是党政军“最高领袖”，正式开启了“金正恩时代”。与此同时，围绕朝鲜半岛的外交战全面展开。
29号的金正日追悼大会在平壤市中心广场举行，约有10万朝鲜军民参加。朝鲜最高人民会议常任委员会主席金永南在悼词中说，金正恩为“党、国家和军队的最高领袖”，是唯一的领导体制。
在28号的遗体告别仪式上，朝鲜电视台直播了金正恩等新领导班子步行护送灵车的场面。朝鲜领导层则通过党报《劳动新闻》，向金正恩宣誓效忠。联合国总部按惯例也降了半旗。
当天，灵柩车队在平壤市内巡游，绵延40公里的数十万朝鲜民众冒雪送行，呼天哭地。山东大学退休教授孙文广表示，这与1976年中共独裁者毛泽东去世的场面相似。
孙文广：“他们把金正日宣传作‘伟大的领袖、人民的救星’，那么在这样一种教育、灌输之下，很多民众觉得金正日去世了，天都塌下来了，悲痛万分。和1976年的中国基本上是一样的，它是多年进行迷信教育、把领袖神化所造成的一个结果。”
金正恩将效法金正日，为亡父守孝三年。金正日的遗体将作防腐处理，安放在锦绣山纪念宫的水晶棺内，与父亲金日成遗体一同，供公众凭吊。
中国作家、前《方圆》杂志记者谢朝平表示，这本身是一种封建体制的传统。
谢朝平：“事实上，那也是封建残余的一种表现。你看社会主义国家或者共产主义国家的人都喜欢那样搞，比方列宁、我们国家、还有朝鲜他们都这样做，这还是一个制度不同的原因吧。”
中共国防部长梁光烈等军方高层27号前往朝鲜驻华使馆吊唁。中共国防部发言人28号在记者会上，否认有关中国军队已派兵进入朝鲜境内的报导。
朝鲜《劳动新闻》说，金正日留下的最大遗产就是核武器和卫星。
28号，朝鲜电视台播放了2009年4月朝鲜试射远程导弹的画面。因为那次行动，联合国加强了对朝鲜的制裁，朝鲜退出六方会谈。
金正日铁腕统治朝鲜17年，上世纪90年代发生严重饥荒，200多万人饿死。联合国指出，朝鲜目前仍有三分之一的人口约610万人急需粮食援救。
韩国《朝鲜日报》29号发表题为“南朝鲜如何评估金正日？”的社论，指出金正日在宪法中删除了“马克思列宁主义和共产主义”用语，甚至摘下社会主义的招牌，将主体思想视为唯一思想，将金日成拥戴为朝鲜的始祖。
《朝鲜日报》说，金正日在去世前，希望以中止铀浓缩设施，换取美国24万吨营养援助。访问美国的六方会谈韩方团长林圣男28号表示，韩美双方就重启与朝鲜的对话，达成了共识。
《韩联社》报导，中国将在年初向朝鲜紧急提供50万吨粮食援助。日本将在韩美日协商的框架内扩大对朝鲜影响力，俄罗斯也在调整加深对朝鲜问题的介入力度。随着金正日追悼期结束，围绕朝鲜半岛和六方会谈的外交全面展开。
新唐人记者秦雪、李元翰、孙宁采访报导。
A New Era for Kim Jong-Un Begins
The funeral of Kim Jon-iI, the North Korean dictator,
signaled the end of his 17 years iron-fist rule since the Cold War days.
At his memorial service on Dec. 29, his son Kim Jong-un
was declared the new military and political “supreme leader".
The “Kim Jong-un era" has officially begun.
And so have new diplomatic efforts for the Korean peninsula.
Around 100,000 military personnel and civilians attended
Kim Jong-il’s memorial service in Pyongyang on Dec. 29th.
Kim Yong Nam, the Chairman of the North Korean Presidium
of the Supreme People’s Assembly,
declared Kim Jong-un as “the top leader of the party,
the state and the military”.
Kim Jong-un was seen walking next to his late father’s
hearse during the funeral procession of December 28th.
Official media Labor News reported the leadership’s new
pledges of loyalty to successor Kim Jong-un.
And the UN headquarters flew its flag
half-mast according to protocol.
The 40 km funeral procession paraded under snow whether
and to the cries of hundreds of thousands of attendees.
A retired professor of Shandong University, Sun Wenguang,
says the scene reminded him of Mao Zedong’s funeral,
the former Chinese Communist Party dictator of the 70’s.
Sun Wenguang: “In their propaganda, Kim Jong-il has been
called “the great leader, the savior of the people “.
Such kind of education and infusion made a lot of
people grieve deeply, thinking that his death pulled the heavens down.
This is almost the same as what happened in China in 1976.
It is actually a result of the deification of their leader. “
Kim Jong-un will be observing a three-year mourning period.
His father’s body will be embalmed and placed in a crystal
coffin at Fairview Hill Memorial Palace for public homage,
and placed next to his grandfather Kim Il-sung.
Writer Xie Zhaoping says this is a feudal system tradition.
Xie Zhaoping: “It’s actually a remnant of feudal manifestation.
You find similar practices in socialist states or in communist
ruling countries, like with Lenin, or in China and North Korea.
I think the different political systems contribute to this practice."
Labor News claims the greatest legacy the late Kim Jong-il
left to the country are its nuclear weapons and satellites.
On Dec. 27th, Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie and
other senior military officials went to the North Korean embassy in Beijing to pay their condolences.
The next day, the Chinese Defense Ministry spokesperson
denied claims that Chinese armies had entered North Korea.
On Dec. 28th, the North Korean state television broadcasted
the test-firing of long-range missiles of April 2009.
The UN, in response, left the Six-Party Talks and
strengthened its sanctions against North Korea.
The late Kim Jong-il ruled North Korea for 17 years with an
iron fist. Two million civilians starved to death during a severe famine in the 1990’s.
A report from the UN says the country needs an urgent food
rescue for about six million people, a third of its population.
Chosun Ilbo Daily News published an editorial entitled:
“How Does South Korea Asses Kim Jong-il?” on Dec. 29th.
The South Korean daily says that Kim Jong-il had deleted
terms from its constitution such as “Marxism-Leninism and communism”, and any expressions from socialism.
Apparently, Kim Jong-il’s ideology was to be the only one and
his father Kim Il-sung was seen as the founder of North Korea.
According to Daily News Chosun Ilbo, Kim Jong-il’s
deathbed wish was to suspend any uranium-enrichment facilities in exchange for 240,000 tons of U.S. food aid.
The Six-Party Talk South Korean delegation leader stated
on Dec. 28th that both South Korea and the U.S. agreed to resume dialogue with North Korea.
According to South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency, in 2012
the Chinese regime will offer half a million tons of food aid to North Korea.
While Japan plans to expand its influence in the country
in line with South Korea and the U.S. Even Russia
is now set to get more involved with any North Korean issues.
As the mourning for Kim Jong-il ends, so begins the Six-Party
Talks’ new diplomatic efforts towards the Korean peninsula.
NTD reporters Qin Xue, Li Yuanhan and Sun Ning
