A sacred North Korean mountain was recently recognized as a UNESCO Global Geopark, the first time a natural site in the ...

He was selected as the leader from among the relatives of Kim Il Sung, who are collectively referred to as the Mount Paektu bloodline. His father, Kim Jong Il, was a son of Kim Il Sung ...

Mount Paektu, an active stratovolcano straddling ... according to North Korean legend. Kim Il Sung, North Korea’s founder and Kim Jong Un’s grandfather, purportedly used the mountain as ...