According to South Korean media reports on Wednesday, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un did not attend the mausoleum visit ...

“There can be little doubt,” writes Fyodor Tertitskiy, that Kim Il Sung “is the darkest figure in all of Korea’s history.” If this Lord of Darkness has any competition at all, it comes ...

His grandfather Kim Il Sung was the first, and he started an unusual dynastic succession. Photos show how the mysterious, powerful family has ruled the country for decades. Kim Jong Un became the ...

North Korea marked Kim Il Sung's birthday on Tuesday, praised his legacy, and stressed loyalty to his grandson, current ...

Kim Jong Un is the third member of the Kim family to serve as leader of North Korea. His grandfather Kim Il Sung was the first, and he started an unusual dynastic succession. Photos show how the ...

Kim Shin-jo, a North Korean soldier who tried to assassinate the South Korean president and who later became a pastor, died ...

The death of Kim Il-sung on July 8, 1994, sent the international diplomatic community scrambling to predict the future of the reclusive state, as well as who would be the next in line to rule ...

North Korea regards joint military exercise between the US and South Korea as a rehearsal for an attack. The drills took ...

Newly declassified diplomatic files from Seoul have revealed that major world powers were deeply concerned about North Korean leader Kim Il-sung’s succession plan after his sudden death in 1994 ...

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 North Korean media on ...

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 Jong Un. Kim Il Sung died of a heart attack in 1994 ...

Before defecting to South Korea in 1991, Ko was a diplomat in Pyongyang who served as an interpreter of French for the country’s founder, Kim Il Sung. Ko cited recent news reports from the ...