The files reveal that one US diplomat even called Kim Jong ... Kim Il-sung had personally asked Deng to “look after” his son, and therefore, Beijing could only respect the request as long ...

He covers public attitudes toward Kim Jong Un and the past dictators, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il ... Global Peace Foundation in Washington, DC. Jump to ...

A once top-level North Korean official, whose decades-long ... Kim Yong Ju was effectively placed in confinement for half a century after losing a battle for power against his nephew, Kim Jong Il.

This underlines the nation’s strategy of dealing with the hard-line stance adopted by Washington and Seoul toward Pyongyang from a long-term ... His father, Kim Jong Il, was a son of Kim Il ...

In 2014, speculation that an unusually long absence from public ... The death of Kim Jong Un’s father and predecessor, Kim Jong Il, by heart attack was announced on Dec. 19, 2011, when he ...