When Kim Il Sung’s heart stopped beating exactly 20 years ago — on July 8, 1994 — the propagandists didn’t let the mere fact of his death get in the way. The 82-year-old founder of the ...

Dec. 19. 2011: Hundreds of North Koreans gather to mourn the death of their leader Kim Jong Il in front of a giant statue of his father Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea's news ...

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 ...

which reported his death on Monday. A huge crowd of mourners converged on Kim Il Sung Square with traditional white mourning flowers in hand. The crowd grew throughout the day, even as heavy snow ...

Kim Il Sung, 1912-1994, was the Communist dictator ... Ordinary Lives in North Korea” and “Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood.” Demick has won Britain’s Samuel ...

late President Kim Il Sung. But with Kim Jong Il's sudden death and the ascension of his young son Kim Jong Un, North Korea's image artisans will have to do it all at warp speed. Founder Kim Il ...

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 ...

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 ...

Twenty years have passed since the death of the "Sun of the Nation," the ever victorious iron-willed brilliant commander, the Great Leader and Generalissimo Kim Il-sung ― and this is merely some ...

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 ...

Kim paid tribute at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun on Tuesday, where the bodies of state founder Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il ... the occasion of his father's death anniversary.