The death of Kim Yong Ju, the younger brother of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, was reported by the Korean Central News Agency on Dec. 15, 2021. After being considered the No. 2 official in ...

Kim Il-sung ruined the economy ... was to keep things in the family: the Kims can no more repudiate their founding father than the country’s elite can rise up and rebel. Kim’s major ...

His father, Kim Jong Il, was a son of Kim Il Sung, and grabbed power after emerging victorious in family battles against his younger half-brother, Kim Pyong Il, and his stepmother, Kim Song Ae.

Kim Chul and ... making Sung Jin-Woo the family's sole provider. Due to him being a vessel of the Rulers, he can also use Ruler's authority (Image via D&C Media) Sung Il-Hwan can use Ruler ...

North Korea's New Year holiday is marked by visits to the mausoleum of its two late leaders and affirmations of allegiance to incumbent leader Kim Jong-un, in contrast to how South Koreans celebrate ...

Set in Seoul during the late 1980s (while the city hosts the Olympic Games), the drama series follows the journeys of five friends (Sung Deok-sun, Kim Jung ... Sung family, as Dong-il grapples ...

Ho’s career trajectory remarkable is an understatement. Following a stellar career as a North Korean diplomat, culminating in ...

“Honestly, it is not easy to capture a North Korean soldier,” Ryu Sung ... Kim is sending troops to Russia for two reasons, “both of which are driven by desperation,” said Ahn Chan Il ...

Multiple defectors from North Korea spoke to NBC News about the mindset of soldiers sent to fight for Russia in Ukraine.

And observers might thereby be forgiven for assuming that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, and that Kim is a mere replica of his father Kim Jong Il and grandfather Kim Il Sung. But such ...

Set in Seoul during the late 1980s (while the city hosts the Olympic Games), the drama series follows the journeys of five friends (Sung Deok-sun, Kim Jung-hwan ... especially noticeable in the Sung ...