“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 ...

In his 10 years at the helm of North Korea since his father’s death, Kim Jong Un, 37, has secured the same absolute power enjoyed by Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung, the current leader’s ...

The death was announced by ... his church said. Mr. Kim said the 1968 attack was made at the order of North Korea founder and then-leader Kim Il Sung, the late grandfather of current ruler Kim ...