KIM Jong-un is “sparing no effort or expense” to get his hands on weight-loss drugs after piling the pounds back on, insiders have revealed. It comes as sources told how the North ...

Citizens visit the bronze statues of their late leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, North Korea Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, on the occasion of 10th anniversary of ...

It was there that she came to the attention of Kim Jong-il. After gaining his favor, she traveled to Japan as part of the troupe. During one of those visits, Ko’s Japanese relatives attempted to ...

This photo, carried by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on July 8, 2025, shows the North's leader Kim ...

Kim Jong Il, right, and Konstantin Pulikovsky, who was the Russian President's representative in the Far East, are seen in the Russian city of Vladivostok on July 26, 2001.

In this image made from video, pedestrians walk beneath portraits of Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il, at Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday, Aug. 11, 2017.

When Kim Jong Il died in 2011, Kim Jong Un filled the role of North Korea's leader. Kim Jong Un and his uncle Jang Song Thaek during Kim Jong Il's funeral procession in 2011.

Kim Jong Il, the dictator who used fear and isolation to maintain power in North Korea and his nuclear weapons to menace his neighbors and threaten the U.S., has died, North Korean state ...

Kim Jong Il, who took power after the death of his father, unveiled his third son as his successor in September 2010, putting the twenty-something Kim Jong Un in high-ranking posts.

North Koreans are required to wear pins with images of the country’s founder, Kim Il Sung, or his son Kim Jong Il. Now the current leader is expanding his own personality cult.

Kim Jong Il inherited power after his father, revered North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, died in 1994. He had been groomed for 20 years to lead the communist nation founded by his guerrilla fighter ...

Kim Jong Il's 17-year rule was overshadowed by a famine in the 1990s that killed hundreds of thousands of people and international isolation over his nuclear ambitions.