The untested new leader Kim Jong-Un

Official media has declared Jong-Un the "great cheap moncler successor", supreme military commander and Central Committee chief of the ruling Workers' Party, although he has not yet been formally appointed to the party and military posts. The official news agency, in a report early Wednesday, referred to Jong-Un as "supreme leader of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Korean people". Analysts expect Wednesday's funeral will be largely a re-run of the 1994 obsequies for Kim Jong-Il's father and founding president Kim Il-Sung -- a ceremony designed to pay homage to the late leader and build loyalty to his dynastic successor. "The regime used the 1994 funeral to strengthen public allegiance and loyalty to new leader Kim Jong-Il," Yang Moo-Jin of Seoul's University of North Korean Studies said. "His own funeral will be staged in a similar way."

 The untested new leader Kim Jong-Un, only in his late 20s, has been the central figure in scenes of intense grief at the memorial palace. It was unclear how prominently he would figure in the funeral itself. Kim Jong-Il was absent from the funeral motorcade for his late father 17 years ago. South Korean media, basing their forecasts on the 1994 ceremonial,moncler jackets for women said the event would likely begin with Jong-Un and senior officials paying final respects at the memorial palace. They said the military was expected to fire a 24-gun salute and troops would march through central Pyongyang, accompanying a limousine carrying Kim's coffin and another car with a giant photo. Military marching bands would play funeral music while convoys of motorcycles and cars carrying flowers and senior officials would follow the coffin as hundreds of thousands looked on, the media forecast.

Mourning will officially end Thursday with a nationwide memorial service including a three-minute silence at noon. Trains, ships and other vehicles will sound their hooters. Analysts will be focusing on the funeral line-up Wednesday for clues about the likely powers behind the throne, as the young Kim takes control of a nuclear-armed nation with the world's fourth-largest military. Kim senior presided over a famine in the 1990s which killed hundreds of thousands and a collapsing economy. But he pressed on with missile tests and a nuclear weapons programme which earned his nation international sanctions. There are still chronic shortages and UN agencies have said six million people -- a quarter of the population -- urgently need food. The South's Yonhap news agency quoted the head of Seoul's National Intelligence Service, Moncler Kids Down Jacket - Cheap Moncler Jackets Won Sei-Hoon, as telling lawmakers that the North appears likely to continue the policies of its late leader.