Kim Jong-un pays respects to Kim Jong-il's body as it is displayed in North Korea

The body of North Korea's long-time ruler Kim Jong-il was laid out in a memorial palace. Images aired on state TV showed that the glass coffin holding Kim's body was surrounded by his namesake flowers - red "kimjongilia" blossoms. He was covered with a red blanket, his head placed on a white pillow. The coffin was presented in a room of the Kumsusan Memorial Palace, a mausoleum where the embalmed body of his father - national founder Kim Il Sung - has been on display in a glass sarcophagus since his death in 1994.