North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appears to have skipped a visit to the family mausoleum on the birth anniversary of his grandfather and national founder Kim Il-sung as North Korean media on Wednesday ...

Bella Seo, who fled North Korea when she was a teenager, has given a chilling account of what school life is like in the ...

Further back in the family tree, her uncle Kim Pyong Il is receiving some notice as a possible replacement should Kim Jong Un die, because the country's patriarchal ruling class may reject her.

Kim Jong Un is the third member of the Kim family to serve as leader of North Korea. His grandfather Kim Il Sung was the first, and he started an unusual dynastic succession. Photos show how the ...

Bella Seo, 23, has revealed the harsh routine in North Korean schools after fleeing the country, which included "extremely ...

Ms Seo and her family managed to escape the country by ... that they learn about like the parable of the boot – that Kim Jong Il's friends didn't have boots, and his mother gave him a pair ...

Here's everything we know about Kim's mysterious life and family. Kim Jong Un is believed to have been born in the early 1980s to Kim Jong Il and Ko Yong Hui. His birth year remains unconfirmed by ...

Kim Jong Il. A centenarian, Kim Yong Ju outlived his brother as well as former leader Kim Jong Il, but he live the second half of his life mainly in obscurity, often in a remote part of the ...

Kim Shin-jo, a former North Korean commando who later became a pastor in South Korea, has died at the age of 82. He was known ...

And that indicates their strength, the Kim family's strength in taking the country ... internally appointed' as the successor to Kim Jong Il at the age of eight, foreign experts would not have ...

The Kim Il Sung birthday ... treats key members of the ruling Kim family like gods. On Tuesday, the country’s main Rodong Sinmun newspaper issued an editorial urging the public to rally behind Kim ...

Hyunseung Lee and his family defected from North Korea in ... attitudes toward Kim Jong Un and the past dictators, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. He also explains what North Korean propaganda ...