Kim Jong-Il's Monster Movie Writer and film historian Mark Jordan Legan tells the story of one of his all-time favorite monster flicks, Pulgasari.The film was commissioned by North Korean dictator ...

The Kim family has ruled North Korea since 1948. Photos show Kim Jong Un's relatives, from his grandfather to his daughter, ...

Eager to have the North Korean movie industry catch up to South Korea, ... “Kim Jong Il had a most bizarre childhood,” remarks former U.S. State Department official David Straub, ...

Former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il kidnapped the famous movie-star couple and forced them to make films for North Korea. Eun-Hee had the kind of rags-to-riches story that Golden Age Hollywood ...

Kim Jong-il often used the medium as propaganda to boost North Korean nationalism. This movie trailer was reportedly shown to eight North Korean delegates at Trump’s summit with Kim Jong-un in ...

When he died in December 2011, Kim Jong Il left behind more than a dynastic regime and a closet full of drab pantsuits. Kim, who ruled the hermetic North Korea from 1994, when his father, Kim Il ...

Filmmaker Shin Sang-ok, left, and actress Choi Eun-hee with North Korean dictator Kim Jon Il, who had the couple kidnapped and forced them to make movies that boosted his nation’s cinema.

Kim Jong Il, who died in 2011, accumulated a collection of 30,000 films, including every Oscar winner (and reportedly lots of porn) — and boasted he'd seen them all.

Documentarians Ross Adam and Rob Cannan chronicle a bizarre episode in film history with “The Lover and the Despot,” detailing the story of director Shin Sang-ok and actress Choi Eun-hee, who ...

“It was just like a movie,” Choi Eun-hee tells directors Rob Cannan and Ross Adam in their documentary, “The Lovers and the Despot.” She ought to know: In the late 1950s to ’70s she ...

In 1978, North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il, who at that time was 30 years old and only the son of the dictator, kidnapped a super famous, middle aged South Korean actress named Choi Eun-Hee, who was ...