【新唐人2011年12月30日訊】隨著朝鮮獨裁者金正日的葬禮結束，他17年的鐵腕統治也宣告落幕。引起全世界關注。12月29號舉行的金正日追悼大會，宣佈他的小兒子金正恩是黨政軍「最高領袖」，正式開啟了「金正恩時代」。與此同時，圍繞朝鮮半島的外交戰全面展開。
29號的金正日追悼大會在平壤市中心廣場舉行，約有10萬朝鮮軍民參加。朝鮮最高人民會議常任委員會主席金永南在悼詞中說，金正恩為「黨、國家和軍隊的最高領袖」，是唯一的領導體制。
在28號的遺體告別儀式上，朝鮮電視臺直播了金正恩等新領導班子步行護送靈車的場面。朝鮮領導層則通過黨報《勞動新聞》，向金正恩宣誓效忠。聯合國總部按慣例也降了半旗。
當天，靈柩車隊在平壤市內巡遊，綿延40公里的數十萬朝鮮民眾冒雪送行，呼天哭地。山東大學退休教授孫文廣表示，這與1976年中共獨裁者毛澤東去世的場面相似。
孫文廣：「他們把金正日宣傳作『偉大的領袖、人民的救星』，那麼在這樣一種教育、灌輸之下，很多民眾覺得金正日去世了，天都塌下來了，悲痛萬分。和1976年的中國基本上是一樣的，它是多年進行迷信教育、把領袖神化所造成的一個結果。」
金正恩將傚法金正日，為亡父守孝三年。金正日的遺體將作防腐處理，安放在錦繡山紀念宮的水晶棺內，與父親金日成遺體一同，供公眾憑弔。
中國作家、前《方圓》雜誌記者謝朝平表示，這本身是一種封建體制的傳統。
謝朝平：「事實上，那也是封建殘餘的一種表現。你看社會主義國家或者共產主義國家的人都喜歡那樣搞，比方列寧、我們國家、還有朝鮮他們都這樣做，這還是一個制度不同的原因吧。」
中共國防部長梁光烈等軍方高層27號前往朝鮮駐華使館弔唁。中共國防部發言人28號在記者會上，否認有關中國軍隊已派兵進入朝鮮境內的報導。
朝鮮《勞動新聞》說，金正日留下的最大遺產就是核武器和衛星。
28號，朝鮮電視臺播放了2009年4月朝鮮試射遠程導彈的畫面。因為那次行動，聯合國加強了對朝鮮的制裁，朝鮮退出六方會談。
金正日鐵腕統治朝鮮17年，上世紀90年代發生嚴重饑荒，200多萬人餓死。聯合國指出，朝鮮目前仍有三分之一的人口約610萬人急需糧食援救。
韓國《朝鮮日報》29號發表題為「南朝鮮如何評估金正日？」的社論，指出金正日在憲法中刪除了「馬克思列寧主義和共產主義」用語，甚至摘下社會主義的招牌，將主體思想視為唯一思想，將金日成擁戴為朝鮮的始祖。
《朝鮮日報》說，金正日在去世前，希望以中止鈾濃縮設施，換取美國24萬噸營養援助。訪問美國的六方會談韓方團長林聖男28號表示，韓美雙方就重啟與朝鮮的對話，達成了共識。
《韓聯社》報導，中國將在年初向朝鮮緊急提供50萬噸糧食援助。日本將在韓美日協商的框架內擴大對朝鮮影響力，俄羅斯也在調整加深對朝鮮問題的介入力度。隨著金正日追悼期結束，圍繞朝鮮半島和六方會談的外交全面展開。
新唐人記者秦雪、李元翰、孫寧採訪報導。
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
