The Bodies of Kim Jong-il would be Preserved

The practice of embalming the previous state leaders have been conducted in 1924 in Lenin and Stalin in 1953. Previously Stalin's body is placed next to Lenin in a meal at Red Square in Moscow, but eight years later moved and buried beside the Kremlin wall. Apart from Stalin and Lenin, the bodies of Chinese leader Mao Zedong and Ho Chi Minh Vietnamese leader also embalmed. To do the embalming, necessary bloodletting until the last drop. This process can last for a year and feed costs are very expensive. For embalming Kim Il-sung in 1994 and then, the cost is estimated to reach U.S. $ 1 million. In embalming Kim Il-sung, the experts brought in biological structure from Moscow, Russia. For Kim Jong-il, not yet known who will do the embalming. It is estimated, North Korea now has experts in this field. Embalming was allegedly done to strengthen the image of Kim Jong-il as "eternal leader." In addition, the North Korean government will also set up a statue Jong-il, the tower called "the tower of eternity," and put a picture of himself in large measure in different regions of the country. source : viva