"I had despised Kim Il-sung for 50 years. I was in a submarine in the Pacific during the Korean War, and many of my ... Some openly expressed frustration, painting a picture of a former president ...

Kim Il-sung ruined the economy, hoarded power and saw his countrymen slaughtered, as Fyodor Tertitskiy’s Accidental Tyrant reveals On October 14 1945, a crowd in Pyongyang gathered to hear an ...

North Korea's state television aired footage of a musical show marking the birthday of founding father Kim Il Sung, which ended ... it has escalated a war of words, warning of full-out nuclear ...