Kim Jong Il is credited with rewriting the main rules behind North Korea's one-family ideology, called the Ten Principles, after being tapped as his father's successor.

A new book reveals that the leader's maternal grandfather was a Japan-based smuggler who had to flee to North Korea to escape ...

SEOUL, South Korea – Kim Jong Il, North Korea's longtime leader, has died at 69 of a heart attack, state TV reported on Monday in a "special broadcast." State media reported that Kim suffered ...

Separately, Reuters reported that in the late 1990s, Kim Jong Il and then-teenaged Kim Jong Un used fraudulent Brazilian passports. Both passports carried the stamp "Embassy of Brazil in Prague ...

Kim Jong Il: 10 weird facts, propaganda AFP/Getty Images 7. Fashion icon. Standing at at 5-foot-3, Kim was a curious figure with his bouffant hairdo, platform shoes and collection of jumpsuits.

Kim Jong Il wanted his successor to be his son, Kim Jong Un, who is believed to be in his late 20s. But there was no immediate word on a new leader in North Korea. Sponsor Message.

Kim Jong Un is also named as vice chairman of the party’s central military commission. August 20, 2011 – Kim Jong Il travels to eastern Russia. He meets with President Dmitry Medvedev in Buryatia.

In 2011, Yomiuri Shimbun reported that on May 12, 1991 (the same year Kim Jong Il was elevated to supreme commander of the Korean People's Army), Kim Jong Un and another boy thought to be his ...

Kim Jong-Il just sent him a full sized train, packed with explosives, to blow up for the scene. Kind of telling him, ‘If you need another one, let me know.’ ...

A propaganda picture of North Korea's reclusive leader Kim Jong-Il posed in a field of grain with a group of cadres in Pyongyang, Nov. 17, 2004.