“There can be little doubt,” writes Fyodor Tertitskiy, that Kim Il Sung “is the darkest figure ... Tyrant” is a book-length account of the life of Kim, the founder of North Korea ...

but he live the second half of his life mainly in obscurity, often in a remote part of the country, according to sources. Kim Yong Ju was born in 1920, eight years after his brother, Kim Il Sung ...

Kim said the 1968 attack was made at the order of North Korea founder and then leader Kim Il Sung, the late grandfather of current ruler Kim Jong Un. Kim Il Sung died of a heart attack in 1994, ...