Kim Il Sung rose to power as a Soviet-backed guerrilla fighter who resisted the Japanese occupation of the Korean Peninsula in the 1930s. He founded the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea ...

During the long rule of Kim Il-sung, his second wife, Kim Song-ae, (stepmother to Kim Jong-il and Kim Kyong-hui), served as first lady from 1963-1974 and was active in North Korean political life ...

North Korea's Kim family tree, published February 17. Reuters. Late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, who succeeded his father in 1994 and ruled until his death in 2011, fathered up to seven ...

The Kim family has ruled North Korea since 1948. Photos show Kim Jong Un's relatives, ... Kim Jong Un and his uncle Jang Song Thaek during Kim Jong Il's funeral procession in 2011.

When Kim Jong Un took power in 2011, he went on a purge, executing his uncle Jang Song Thaek, and was believed to have ordered the assassination of his exiled half-brother, Kim Jong Nam, in Malaysia.

What's next now that Kim Jong Il is dead? Kim, whose official age was 69 but who actually was 70, died Saturday of a heart attack, according to North Korean state media. He leaves behind a pretty ...

North Korean state media called for increased loyalty toward Kim Jong Un on the 10th anniversary of Kim Jong Il's death. Above, citizens visit the bronze statues of their late leaders Kim Il Sung ...

In a country where revolutionary credentials help to determine legitimacy, the 26 year old has none of the experience of his father and none of the historic credentials of his grandfather, the first ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un provides field guidance to the Ryuwon Shoes Factory in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang on Jan. 21, 2015.

With the death of Kim Jong Il, the system of dynastic succession in North Korea seems an anachronistic anomaly. But there is additional cause for alarm with this transition. When Kim took over 13 ...

When Kim Il Sung, the father of Kim Jong Il, died in 1994, some were punished for not seeming grief stricken enough, defectors from North Korea told Barbara Demick of the Los Angeles Times.

1 of 4 | Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, attends wreath-laying ceremony at the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 2019. File Pool Photo by Jorge Silva/EPA-EFE ...