During this period, North Korea was ruled by "Great Leader" Kim Il-sung. While Jong-il was the heir apparent, Jong-un's path to command was far less certain. Then it was off to Switzerland to ...

Kim Il-sung ruined the economy, hoarded power and saw his countrymen slaughtered, as Fyodor Tertitskiy’s Accidental Tyrant reveals On October 14 1945, a crowd in Pyongyang gathered to hear an ...

After the death of the dictator's grandmother, his grandfather and predecessor, Kim Il-sung, remarried and started another ...

A famous North Korean defector has revealed how dictator Kim Jong-un annually ... conceived the concept to please his father, Kim Il-Sung (Kim Jong-un’s grandfather), and secure his succession.

Kim Young-hwan, one of four South Korean human rights activists held in China for 51 days so far, is a revolutionary thinker whose career has taken many dramatic turns.

Kim Yong Ju was born in 1920, eight years after his brother, Kim Il Sung, who had formerly been ... establishing the foundation for dictatorship. Kim Yong Ju became head of the Organization ...

Led by Kim Il Sung, the North acknowledged the Inter-Korean Basic Agreement ... This chapter in history shows the price a dictator is willing to pay. Kim Jong Il’s death had been foreseen for a ...