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. In the past, Kim Jong Il ...

SEOUL--North Korea has released a new song praising ... Kim’s position. Instead of calling the annual public holiday celebrating the birth of the country’s founder Kim Il Sung “Day of ...

“There can be little doubt,” writes Fyodor Tertitskiy, that Kim Il Sung “is the darkest figure ... It involved Kim’s first wife, Han Song Hui, whom he loved but who was captured in 1940 ...