The Kim family has ruled North Korea since 1948. Photos show Kim Jong Un's relatives, from his grandfather to his daughter, ...

In a picture taken on June 4, 2010 Kim Jong Nam, the eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, waves after an interview with South Korean media representatives in Macau. <br>The eldest son ...

Kim Jong Nam is the eldest son of Kim Jong Il.He was widely assumed to be the heir, but fell from favor in 2001 after being arrested at Tokyo’s Narita airport, trying to sneak in under a fake ...

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.

And Kim Jong Il took over the country in 1994 after his father, Kim Il-Sung, dropped dead of a heart attack at his Pyongyang residence. The 82-year-old dictator had led North Korea since he ...

About 20 years ago, while traveling across Russia in his forest-green armored train, Kim Jong Il is reported to have made something of a confession to a foreign emissary.

Officially, in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or DPRK, there are four important members of the Kim family: North Korean founding father and president Kim Il-sung, his first wife Kim ...

Mosaic murals installed at a factory in Pyongyang place current North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the center between his predecessors, North Korean TV footage has shown, signifying the ongoing ...

The so-called Great Leader, father of "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il, his heir, died of what Pyongyang Radio called a heart attack. The death of an 82-year-old man rarely qualifies as a shock.

Lee observed Kim Jong Un and Kim’s half-brother, Kim Jong Nam, when he was assigned to protect their father, Kim Jong Il, who led North Korea from 1994 until his death in 2011.

He’s the hermit madman with big nuclear dreams, but president Kim Jong Un and his family — who have ruled North Korea since 1948 — also have a strong line in kooky myths. Here are 10 things t… ...

Most tourists in the old days did not see much in the way of single monuments to Kim Jong-il. I can recall two - one on a Orang military base with KJI and a Songun slogan and another at Mount Chilbo.