SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un led a state funeral for the country’s longtime ceremonial head of state, Kim Yong Nam, who died this week at age 97.

Kim Jong Un and other senior officials from a 100-member funeral committee joined family members as Kim Yong Nam — unrelated to the ruling Kim family — was buried on Wednesday at the Patriotic Martyrs' Cemetery in Pyongyang, the North’s official Korean Central News Agency said Thursday.

State media images showed mourning citizens bowing along the streets as a car carrying Kim Yong Nam’s flag-draped coffin and a large portrait drove toward the cemetery, where Kim Jong Un and other senior officials waited at the entrance.

North Korean Premier Pak Thae Song delivered a eulogy, and Kim Jong Un, along with what appeared to b

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