Macias recalls tenderness from Kim Il Sung, the grandfather of Kim Jong Un. Getty Images Kim Il Sung told Macias and her siblings “that our father was a good friend, a good person,” she writes.

In stark contrast, more than 30 years after Kim Il Sung’s death, North Korea still swears eternal loyalty to him. It remains ruled by his bloodline and, in most respects, continues as the ...

And Kim Jong Il took over the country in 1994 after his father, Kim Il-Sung, dropped dead of a heart attack at his Pyongyang residence. The 82-year-old dictator had led North Korea since he ...

Kim Il Sung was a man who told his people what to think, where to go, what to wear, what to eat, whom to marry, whom to shun, whom to worship and whom to anathematize (both at home and abroad). Mr.

Macias spent 15 years in Pyongyang, having arrived in 1979 at the age of seven alongside her siblings, Maribel and Fran. They were sent by their father, Francisco Macias Nguema – Equatorial Guinea’s ...

While Kim Jong Un's two-week absence has inspired speculation and rumors that he is gravely ill, he is not the first member of North Korean's ruling elite to disappear from public view.Video above ...

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has sent a message to mark South Africa's Freedom Day amid rumours that he died after undergoing surgery. ... Kim Il Sung, on April 15.

Biographies abound of Hitler, Stalin and Mao, but those of Kim are hard to come by: “Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader,” by Suh Dae-sook, was the last good one, published in 1988, six years ...