North Korea's state television broadcast extensive coverage following the death of leader Kim Jong-il despite the country's chronic power shortage.
The Korean Central Television aired documentary films on Kim's life and the nationwide public mourning by increasing broadcast time since Dec. 19, when the North announced Kim had died of heart failure.
It also showed the North's new leader Kim Jong-un, flanked by top officials, as he paid an emotional tribute to his father at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace where the body of the senior Kim lay in state.
Broadcasting began at 7 a.m. on Wednesday when the North held a massive funeral ceremony for the late leader, and ended at 5:15 a.m. on Thursday.
The network also provided a rare live broadcast of the three-hour funeral procession that showed tens of thousands of North Koreans weeping and wailing in freezing temperatures as a hearse carrying Kim's body passed through snow-covered Pyongyang.
It resumed broadcasting at 9 a.m. on Thursday and provided another live broadcast of a one-hour memorial service in Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang.
The extensive coverage is very rare in the electricity-starved country.
A South Korean private relief group said earlier this month that electricity is only available between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. in Pyongyang this month, citing unidentified sources inside the North.
North Korea has announced it will provide electricity 24 hours a day in Pyongyang beginning Jan. 1, according to Good Friends, which has a track record of accurate information on North Korea.
Night-time satellite photos of the Korean Peninsula show a pitch-dark North neighboring a brightly illuminated South Korea. (Yonhap)