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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Falling further down the Kim Jong Il news interhole, I stumbled across the even more fascinatingly twisted story of "Pulgasari." It's a 1985 "Godzilla"-esque rubber-monster movie that's the ...

Movie review of “The Lovers and the Despot”: The real-life kidnapping of a prominent South Korean movie director and his movie-star ex-wife by North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il is the ...

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.

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 ...

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.