1942 -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is born. He took power after his father Kim Il-sung, founder of the communist country, died in 1994.

Kim Il-sung ruined the economy, hoarded power and saw his countrymen slaughtered, as Fyodor Tertitskiy’s Accidental Tyrant ...

Kim’s emphasis on Chongryon is distinct from that of his father and predecessor, Kim Jong Il. In the early years of that ...

Kim Yong Ju is believed to have been sent by Japan’s police authorities to Manchuria to advise Kim Il Sung to drop his anti-Japan activities and surrender to Tokyo, according to Kang In-duk ...

Choi Sung-ryong, whose father was executed by North Korea, wants to pressure a pro-Pyongyang association in Tokyo over the abductees Choi Sung-ryong was a teenager in South Korea when his father was ...

The country has described Kim Il-sung as having fought against Japanese colonialism from the mountain, the highest on the Korean Peninsula. The North also called the mountain the sacred birthplace ...

Writer Jang Jin-sung’s office in Dapshipni, eastern Seoul, a sleepy neighborhood, evokes memories of the old Seoul, the Seoul ...

Rason, a city on the border with China, will open to foreign tourists, five years after Pyongyang sealed its frontiers over Covid-19.

State media images showed Kim waving from a balcony looking over Kim Il Sung Square, which is named after his grandfather, as huge columns of people carrying red plastic flowers and floats with ...

Led by Kim Il Sung, the North acknowledged the Inter-Korean Basic Agreement and the Joint Declaration of Non-Proliferation in 1992. Because of its active involvement in joint talks, it seemed to be ...

A singer performed the national anthem and what appeared to be intercontinental ballistic missiles rolled through Kim Il Sung Square. Not one person in the crowd wore a face mask, as North Korea ...