The history of famous dictators is filled with bizarre claims and personal myths. From Idi Amin and Kim Jong Il to Vladimir Putin, Yahya Jammeh, and Papa Doc Duvalier, famous dictators have used the ...

Kim, who witnessed the failed launch of the 5,000-ton destroyer, excoriated the accident as caused by "carelessness" that ...

A major accident occurred at a launch ceremony for a new North Korean naval destroyer, state media reported Thursday, with leader Kim Jong Un saying the mishap was a "criminal act". At a ceremony to ...

It may be small and petty, but these changes are part of the erosion of democratic norms, softening people up for potentially ...

September 9, 2008 – According to US and South Korean intelligence, Kim Jong Il has been suffering from severe health problems and may have had a stroke. January 2009 – Reports from South Korea ...

Its founder first supreme leader, Kim Il Sung, was replaced in 1994 by son Kim Jong Il, who was in turn succeeded by Kim Jong Un in 2011.

"I don’t know what the severity of his health is like ... Lee noted that both Kim’s father and grandfather, Kim Jong Il and Kim Sung Il, respectively, died from heart attacks, and he talked ...

Mr. Kim took over after his father, Kim Jong-il, died in 2011 ... especially when doubts about Mr. Kim’s health have occasionally emerged. If Ju-ae replaces Mr. Kim as leader, she would be ...