Some context for others here, Kim Il Sung is dead but is still technically the North Korean supreme head of state. He is the "Eternal President" with his successors deriving their notional authority to rule directly from him, but apparently officially deferring to his corpse should the question of precedence come up.

In case anyone was wondering, Kim Kong Il holds (not held) the slightly less exalted titles of "Eternal General Secretary" (of the worker's party) and "Eternal Chairman" (of the national defense commission). Even though he is quite definitively also dead.

And while we're at it, Francisco Franco is also still dead.