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 ...

The Kim family has ruled North Korea since 1948. Photos show Kim Jong Un's relatives, from his grandfather to his daughter, ...

The strikes potentially hardened Kim Jong Un’s determination to hold on to—and expand—his nuclear arsenal as a deterrent to ...

Kim Il-sung, founder of North Korea, speaks at a mass rally in Pyongyang in 1953. Reuters “According to his memoirs, Kim Il Sung saw his future quite clearly: military service, academy, command ...

North Korean Leader Kim Il-sung . Don Oberdorfer talks about the former leader of North Korea, his death and what it means for the country.

Mosaic murals installed at a factory in Pyongyang place current North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the center between his ...

(Seoul, April 13, 2016) – As North Korea prepares to celebrate the birthday of the country’s late founder and perpetual president Kim Il-Sung on April 15, the world should urgently demand an ...

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 ...

To promote recovery after decades of colonial subjugation and the turmoil of the Korean War, North Korean leader Kim Il Sung’s regime promoted a set of urban programs called the New Living in the ...

They lived under the guardianship of then-leader Kim Il-sung, who allowed them to stay when their father was killed in a military coup Reading Time: 3 minutes Why you can trust SCMP ...

North Korea introduced the Kim Il-sung badges in 1970 after the country’s founder purged all his domestic competitors to establish a monolithic rule. Kim Il-sung then was 58 years old.