Kim Yong Ju was born in 1920, eight years after his brother, Kim Il Sung, who had formerly been named Kim Song Ju, according to South Korea’s Unification Ministry, which keeps information on ...

Born Kim Song Ju to a Protestant family near Pyongyang under Japanese occupation, Kim did as a young man fight for the partisans in Manchuria, but when they were defeated he crossed the border ...

One observer said Kim reminded him of a Chinese waiter. Born Kim Song-ju, he’d adopted “Il-sung” as his nom de guerre around a decade before, when his armed opposition to Japanese rule and ...

Kim Song, a singer and the wife of Kang Won-rae, a member of the group Clon, targeted an acquaintance who has been posting negative comments about her. On the 20th, Kim noted on her social media ...