Strange natural phenomena have been witnessed in North Korea since the death of the country’s Dear Leader Kim Jong-il, the state news agency reports.
Even nature is mourning, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported on Thursday.
A freak snowstorm hit as Mr. Kim died and ice on the volcanic Chon Lake near his reported birthplace at Mount Baekdu cracked, it said.
The ice cracked on the famous lake “so loud, it seemed to shake the Heavens and the Earth,” and a mysterious glow was seen on the revered mountain top, KCNA said.
(Kim Jong-il’s official biography states he was born in a secret military camp on Mount Baekdu in Japanese-Occupied Korea on February 16, 1942. His birth at the sacred mountain was foretold by a swallow, and heralded by the appearance of a double rainbow across the sky over the mountain and a new star in the heavens.)
Following the storm’s sudden end at dawn on Tuesday, a message carved in rock - “Mount Baekdu, holy mountain of revolution. Kim Jong-il” - glowed brightly, it said. It remained there until sunset.
On the same say, a Manchurian crane also apparently adopted a posture of grief at a statue of the late leader’s father in the northern city of Hamhung.
“Even the crane seemed to mourn the demise of Kim Jong-il, born of Heaven, after flying down there at dead of cold night, unable to forget him,” KCNA reported officials as saying.
