Photo: Kyodo

The cremation ceremony for former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk’s will take place on the afternoon of February 4. According to the Cambodian Foreign Ministry, 14 foreign delegations, including delegations from Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, France, Australia, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea, will attend the cremation ceremony. King Sihanouk was born in 1922. He became king for the first time in 1941, for the second time in 1993, and abdicated in 2004. After abdicating, he was given the titles King’s father. He is considered by Cambodians to be the father of Cambodia’s independence.