Korea Central News Agency, via European Pressphoto Agency
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By CHOE SANG-HUN and NORIMITSU ONISHI
Published: December 20, 2011
SEOUL, South Korea — Among countless mourners at a public square in North Korea, the kneeling middle-aged man in an off-white windbreaker stands out. The state broadcaster’s camera zooms in as he wails, rocking back and forth with clenched fists, his grief punctuated by the white puffs of his breath visible in the cold of the capital, Pyongyang.