North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un is aggressively signaling his daughter’s role as his likely successor, despite the unprecedented nature of a female in command of the hermit state. Kim Ju Ae — ...

The teenage daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made her first known visit to a sacred family mausoleum, a step that experts say bolstered her status as her father’s potential heir. The visit, ...

SEOUL, Jan 2 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's daughter, Ju Ae, who is likely being prepared as his successor, accompanied her parents on her first public visit to the Kumsusan mausoleum ...

Dec. 17 (Asia Today) --North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun early Wednesday to mark the 14th anniversary of the death of former leader Kim Jong Il, North Korea's ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un paid his highest tribute to late state leader and his father Kim Jong-il at the family mausoleum Wednesday, marking the 14th anniversary of his death, state media ...

North Korea is one of the most backwards and reclusive nations in existence. Ruled by a familial cult of personality, the Kim family has reigned supreme there since the end of the Second World War.

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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un led a state funeral for the country’s longtime ceremonial head of state, Kim Yong Nam, who died this week at age 97. Kim Jong Un and other senior ...

SEOUL, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Kim Yong Nam, the only person outside of the ruling Kim family dynasty to serve as North Korea's nominal head of state, has died, state media reported on Tuesday. Kim Yong Nam ...

SEOUL, Nov. 4 (UPI) --Kim Yong Nam, a North Korean diplomat and politician who served under three generations of the Kim family dynasty, has died at age 97, state media reported Tuesday. He died on ...

Kim Yong Nam, a quintessential North Korean bureaucrat whose lifelong loyalty to the ruling Kim dynasty allowed him to serve as the country’s ceremonial head of state for two decades, has died, state ...

North Korea reported that its long-time ceremonial Head of State Kim Yong Nam died at age 97. Kim Yong Nam, former president of the Presidium of North Korea’s rubber-stamp Supreme People’s Assembly, ...