who ascended to power in 1945 at the end of World War II. Biographies abound of Hitler, Stalin and Mao, but those of Kim are hard to come by: “Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader,” by Suh Dae ...

Kim Shin-jo, a prominent North Korean commando who resettled in South Korea as a pastor after his daring mission to assassinate then South Korean President Park Chung-hee in 1968 failed, has died.

The death of Kim Yong Ju, the younger brother of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, was reported by the ... Kim Yong Ju was in Shanghai when World War II ended. He relocated to Seoul and then ...

6/9/1951, Library of Congress The war broke out on June 25, 1950 when North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel, invading South Korea. North Korean leader Kim Il-sung launched the attack once ...

Kim Il-sung, (no relation), who became ... that he had not harmed any civilians during the Blue House raid and had fully renounced North Korean ideology. Kim’s defection resulted in the ...

Pyongyang admitted for the first time that it has sent troops to fight against Ukraine, according to North Korean media.

Kim Il Sung. Ko cited recent news reports from the reclusive state and noted that Pyongyang’s Korean Central News Agency released a statement Jan. 1 quoting Kim Jong Un as calling for an ...

In media interviews, Kim said he was pardoned because he didn’t fire a single bullet during the shootouts and was persuaded by South Korean officials ... then leader Kim Il Sung, the late ...

The infiltration, which also killed about 30 South Korean forces, took place amid Cold War ... Kim said the 1968 attack was made at the order of North Korea founder and then-leader Kim Il Sung ...

The U.S. use of B-1B bombers in drills with South Korea, as North Korea marked the birthday of its founder, could draw an ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised tests of short-range ballistic missile systems that simulated nuclear ...