This picture taken by North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 15, 2013 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) clapping with teachers and cadets from military academies as he enjoys a sports contest between Kim Il-Sung Military University and Kim Il-Sung University of Politics in Pyongyang. As North Korea marked the birth of late founding leader Kim Il-Sung on April 15 — a major national holiday — around 40 protesters in Seoul burned portraits of Kim, his son Kim Jong-Il and grandson and current leader Kim Jong-Un. North Korea’s military on April 16 threatened the South with imminent “sledge-hammer” retaliation unless Seoul apologised for anti-Pyongyang protesters burning effigies of its revered leaders. AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS
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