Just two months after the death of Kim Jong Il, North Korea is signaling that it wants to improve ties with the United States and get some much-needed assistance.
North Korea is entering a new era of leadership by "solemnly and confidently" declaring that rival South Korea and other nations shouldn't expect any change.
North Korea says Kim Jong Il's son is now "supreme leader" of the ruling party, military and people as a massive crowd gathers to memorialize the late leader.
The body of North Korea's long-time ruler Kim Jong Il was laid out in a memorial palace Tuesday as weeping mourners filled public plazas and state media fed a budding personality cult around his third son, hailing him as "born of heaven."