“Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader,” by Suh Dae-sook, was the last good one, published in 1988, six years before Kim’s death. Mr. Tertitskiy’s book appears 37 years later. Yet for all ...

Kim Il-sung, a massive 20-metre-high bronze statue. It stands on Mansu Hill in the capital and is a major tourist destination. When North Koreans visit the statue they bow before it and leave flowers ...

Before defecting to South Korea in 1991, Ko was a diplomat in Pyongyang who served as an interpreter of French for the country’s founder, Kim Il Sung. Ko cited recent news reports from the ...

SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong ... A floral basket was laid in his name before the statues of the late leader and national founder Kim Il-sung, and he paid "homage of ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appears ... including an evening party among young students at Kim Il Sung Square in the capital, and flower baskets were laid before the founder's statues nationwide.

Kim said the 1968 attack was made at the order of North Korea founder and then-leader Kim Il Sung, the grandfather of current ruler Kim Jong Un. Kim Il Sung died of heart attack in 1994 ...