SEOUL: North Korea celebrated the birth anniversary Wednesday of founder Kim Il-Sung, with current leader Kim Jong-Un paying respects at his grandfather’s mausoleum, as rights groups highlighted his “horrific” human rights legacy.

At the stroke of midnight, Kim Jong-Un, accompanied by top military leaders, visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in Pyongyang—the mausoleum holding the embalmed body of his grandfather, the North’s official KCNA news agency said.

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