Newly released files show experts from the US and Russia were sceptical he could hold onto power in the wake of his father's ...

Seoul’s Foreign Ministry on Friday declassified several diplomatic dossiers from 1994, revealing that the international ...

Countries worldwide scrambled to understand the sudden death of North Korea's founder, Kim Il-sung, in 1994, with the United ...

"The fact is that when Kim Jong-il’s father, Kim Il-sung, died, the post of president of the DPRK was left to him, thereby making him the ‘eternal president.’ Similarly, when Kim Jong-un’s ...