Kim Jong-un had made annual visits to the mausoleum on the founder's birthday since 2012 after taking power following his father's death the previous year but suspended the tradition in 2020 due ...

Kim Jong Il. A centenarian, Kim Yong Ju outlived his brother as well as former leader Kim Jong Il, but he live the second half of his life mainly in obscurity, often in a remote part of the ...

Bella Seo, who fled the country when she was a teenager, said kids faced up to three classes a day studying the Kim family - the most ... However, after Kim Jong-il's death, Kim Jong-un took ...

Kim Jong Un has gone further than his predecessors by prominently featuring his royal family—something that was taboo during Kim Jong Il’s era—to achieve his political objectives. The “Ri Sol Ju ...

Kim Il Sung, North Korea’s founder and Kim Jong Un’s grandfather ... has been widely used by the Kim dynasty to showcase the family’s own lore and deification. Its peaks have been emblazoned ...

On that visit he describes how he had his picture taken in front of a couple of huge images of Kim Jong-il and his father, but was eventually chased away "by one of the men in charge of the training".

Kim Jong Il, died in Dec. 2011. Monday marks ten years since the younger Kim was elected as the top party and state leader. The Kim family has ruled the one-party state for its entire history.

At the height of the North's famine and uncertainties about the succession of Kim Jong Il, some members of the South Korean government have speculated that the North was such a weak "tree" that ...

SEOUL, April 16 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appears to have skipped a visit to the family mausoleum on the birth anniversary of his grandfather and national founder Kim Il-sung as ...