In June 1994, the former US president arrived for talks in Pyongyang with then leader Kim Il-sung. It was unprecedented ... his own reality," a senior official complained at the time to The ...

Kim Jong Un was assigned the title after the death of his father, Kim Jong Il. His father had been appointed after the death of his own father, North Korean founder Kim Il Sung. In this way ...

Kim Jong Il’s presence continued to increase, and in the 1970s, Kim Il Sung started telling those around him that his son would take over the leadership role. In July 1972, the South and North ...

Mr. Kim’s grandfather, Kim Il-sung, North Korea’s first leader ... He tried to play Beijing and Moscow off each other, and the militant official ideology he introduced — “juche ...

There are 25 million people in North Korea, but the only visible portraits are of its leaders ... A couple poses in the middle of Kim Il Sung Square, which can fit an estimated 100,000 people ...

In a photo released by North Korea’s state media, Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, flank Kim Il-sung, North Korea ... A painted portrait of Jimmy Carter hangs by a window in the dining ...

(AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File) Kim Jung Wook, a South Korean Baptist missionary, speaks under portraits of late leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il during a news conference in Pyongyang, North ...

1. North Korea uses two calendars at once: the usual chronicle from the Nativity of Christ and Juche one. Recently, it has ...

My response is simple: I’m what you might call a “North Korea enthusiast” who enjoys thinking from the perspective of three generations of leadership – Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, and Kim Jong Un. Being ...

Kim Chul and Hwang Dongsoo are minor characters ... but still retains a lot of importance in the story is Sung Jin-Woo’s father, Sung Il-Hwan. Sung Il-Hwan is a former hunter who disappeared ...