Apparently:
“10.27am: North Koreans are so overcome with grief that they feel as though the sky is falling in, according to the latest dispatch from KCNA. "
Yeh, losing your dictator will do that .... lots of people really WEPT when Stalin died after all !
North Korea must rank as the world's most depressing regime - for socialists anyway - raises for us all the VERY tricky issue of the STATE, specifically the "Workers' State" and "The Party". Apart from Anarchism (which has its own theory problems on the state and revolution) , its hard to really point to any convincing new thinking on this vital issue for a long, long, time - other than the standard wishful thinking that "in an advanced capitalist economy with no peasants there will be no problem in the working class holding power itself - rather than via a bureaucratic intermediary". Not entirely convinced myself so far.