The North’s Korea Central News Agency reported that a state funeral was held for Marshal Ri Ul-sol of the Korean People's Army (KPA) on Wednesday.
 
The funeral was attended by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as well as Kim Yong-nam, chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of North Korea; Hwang Pyong-so, director of the KPA General Political Bureau and Premier Pak Pong-ju.
 
But Choe Ryong-hae, secretary of the Central Committee of the North’s Workers' Party, who was absent from the funeral committee, was also not spotted at the funeral.
 
Escorted by motorcycles, the armored vehicle carrying Ri's body paraded through Pyongyang before being led to the Taesongsan Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery just outside the capital.
 
Ri, one of the last surviving members of North Korea's first generation of leaders, died of lung cancer on Saturday at the age of 94. He headed Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il's security service and was named marshal of the KPA in 1995.