Kim Il-sung (L), and his late father, Kim Jong-il, at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun in Pyongyang. Kim Jong-un visited the site on Dec. 17, 2024, to mark his father's 13th death anniversary.

The death of Kim Yong Ju, the younger brother of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, was reported by the Korean Central News Agency on Dec. 15, 2021. After being considered the No. 2 official in ...

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

Cheong Seong-chang, director of the Center for Korean Peninsula Strategy at the Sejong Institute, is a longtime observer of North Korea and has closely followed the reclusive regime's two previous ...

When the fire broke out, the mother was reportedly unable to save the portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il Joelle Goldstein is a Senior News Editor on the TV team for PEOPLE Digital.

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 ...

Kim Il Sung, former president of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Mother: Kim Jung Suk Marriages: Kim Ok (July 2006-December 17, 2011, his death); Ko Yong Hui (1977-2004, her death); Kim ...

Contrary to what its apologists claim, North Korea owes its existence to the Russians, who declared war on Japan two days after Hiroshima, invaded the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (the Chinese ...

before and after Kim Il-sung's sudden death in 1994 and Kim Jong-il's sudden death in 2011. The in-depth analysis of Kim Jong-un stems from his many years of studying North Korea, both before and ...