Each change at the top in North Korea has raised the prospect of a leadership vacuum or collapse of the Kim dynasty, which has ruled the country since its founding in 1948. So far, each of the ...

Supreme leaders have only ever been selected hereditarily from male members of the Kim dynasty. Kim Jong Un was assigned the title after the death of his father, Kim Jong Il. His father had been ...

Rason, a city on the border with China, will open to foreign tourists, five years after Pyongyang sealed its frontiers over ...

A Chinese agency is offering tours to N. Korea to mark late leader Kim Jong Il's birthday. But it's not clear whether the ...

A plaque with the leaders of the Kim Dynasty, which Han Jin Myung dutifully pinned on himself every day. The last image on the screen is from November 2014 – a month before his escape.

This will be the third ruler of the Kim Dynasty, as Kim Jong Il took over from his father, Kim Il Sung, when de passed away in 1994. While it is easy to ridicule North Korea as the world’s first and ...

The intraparty fiasco was reported widely across North Korean state media in the following days — a rare example of government malpractice being covered by national news outlets.

A deep look inside the current regime of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea under Kim Jong-un, featuring stories from defectors, celebrities, photographers and journalists who have visited ...

The birthdays of members of the ruling Kim dynasty are typically feted in the North with large scale public celebrations. The birthday of former ruler Kim Jong Il -- father of current leader Kim ...

The birthdays of members of the ruling Kim dynasty are typically feted in the North with large scale public celebrations. The birthday of former ruler Kim Jong Il – father of current leader Kim ...