Before defecting to South Korea in 1991, Ko was a diplomat in Pyongyang who served as an interpreter of French for the country’s founder, Kim Il Sung. Ko cited recent news reports from the ...

Kim Il-sung ruined the economy, hoarded power and saw his countrymen slaughtered, as Fyodor Tertitskiy’s Accidental Tyrant ...

Taken alone, each portrait could look like smiling propaganda ... A couple poses in the middle of Kim Il Sung Square, which can fit an estimated 100,000 people for national military parades.

North Koreans laid floral tributes at the statues of founding father Kim Il Sung and his son, Kim Jong Il, to mark the Lunar New Year.

In June 1994, the former US president arrived for talks in Pyongyang with then leader Kim Il-sung. It was unprecedented, marking the first time a former or sitting US president had visited.

Both his birthday and that of late national founder Kim Il-sung, on April 15, are observed as national holidays in North Korea. The exhibition displayed photos and videos of not only Kim Jong-il ...

The roads and streets were dotted with huge portraits of Mr Kim and Mr Putin and red roses and red carpet bedecked Mr Putin’s path. The Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang where all major military ...

1, 2023, shows a mosaic portrait featuring North Korean Kim ... the birthday of late national founder Kim Il-sung. The unification ministry said North Korea held such a ritual on Jan. 8, Kim ...