Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party takes office Wednesday. His first task: Dealing with the economic fallout of President ...

with one US diplomat calling his heir Kim Jong-il “goofy” and a Russian expert predicting he would lose control of the country within two years. The documents, released by South Korea’s ...

Three years later, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was established. In 1949, Kim Jong Suk died. She was seen as the mother of the country. Kim Il Sung's memoir contributed to some of the ...

Birth place: Sources vary between Khabarovsk, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics/Siberia and Mount Paektu, Democratic People’s Republic ... of South Korea, meets with Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang.

SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has begun celebrations for the anniversary of late former leader Kim Jong-il's birthday ... day at Pyongyang's People's Palace of Culture, ahead of his ...

Kim Jong-il was ... his father Kim Il-sung as the second leader of North Korea, living an extravagant and eccentric lifestyle, while oppressing and starving the ordinary people.

For many people, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is a caricature dictator or a geopolitical curiosity — a portly ruler comically posing in front of missile launches or factory lines. But Anna ...

In January this year, Kim Jong Un broke with decades ... ‘unification of the [Korean] minjok,’ ‘solidarity of the Korean people,’ and [Kim Il Sung’s] ‘Three Principles [for Unification ...

At the annual Workers’ Party Plenum last December, North Korean leader Kim Jong ... people as us.” Most shockingly, members are now prohibited from “referring to words of the Great Leader ...

A North Korean diplomat has defected to the South in a public relations blow to the Kim Jong Un regime, it has emerged. Ri Il Kyu ... understanding why people believe in religion," he said ...

In North Korea, nearly all private homes and public offices must display portraits of Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung side ... "Now, he is signaling to the people that he is the trustworthy leader ...