Kim Il Sung's son and political successor, Kim Jong Il, never claimed the title of "Great President," presumably out of deference to his father. Upon his death in 2012, Kim Jong Il was written ...

IN 1948, North Korea was founded by Kim Il-sung, which he ruled until his death in 1994. After his death, his son, Kim Jong-il became leader of the communist state, which is currently ruled by his ...

Kim Jong-un visits the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on the anniversary of the death of President Kim Il-sung Reuters Twenty years ago today, North Korean founder Kim Il-sung died at the age of 82 ...

Reporting from Beijing — Chu Sung-ha says he knows for sure that some of the people shown sobbing on television over the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il are faking it. Once, he was one ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. REPORTING FROM SEOUL -– North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s death ...

Hundreds of thousands of people starved to death in the mid-1990s ... crystal meth for headaches. But the Kim family dynasty, begun by Kim Il-sung in 1948, has been stunningly successful in ...

North Korea leader Kim Jong Un marked the 10th anniversary of the death of leader Kim Jong ... before giant statues of Kim Jong Il and his father, Kim Il Sung, who ruled for 46 years.

As North Korea mourns the death of its leader Kim Jong Il ... kind of thing is also a loyalty test. When Kim Jong Il's father, Kim Il Sung, died in 1994, the party actually conducted surveys ...

People in Pyongyang pay their respects before statues of the late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on Dec. 16, to mark the 10-year anniversary of the death of Kim Jong Il, the ...

North Korea has had only two leaders since its founding in 1948: Kim Jong Il, and before him, his father, Kim Il Sung. Now ... What will Kim Jong Il's death mean for the Korean peninsula?

“Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader,” by Suh Dae-sook, was the last good one, published in 1988, six years before Kim’s death. Mr. Tertitskiy’s book appears 37 years later. Yet for all ...

When he assumed power after the death of his father, Kim Il-sung, in 1994, very little was known about Kim Jong-il. He had seldom been seen in public. He was said to have personally ordered the ...