North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has visited the public and state security ministries and judicial bodies on their 80th ...

By making North Korea an indispensable partner with Russia, Kim Jong-un has placed North Korea in its best geopolitical ...

Kim Yong Nam, a quintessential North Korean bureaucrat whose lifelong loyalty to the ruling Kim dynasty allowed him to serve as the country’s ceremonial head of state for two decades, has died, state ...

U.S. diplomats on the North Korea beat must have the same goal as Goldilocks -- not too hot and not too cold. Too much heat from Washington would just heighten the propaganda payoff for Kim Jong Il, ...

Amid persistent economic hardship, it is becoming more common for elderly North Koreans to long for the days of Kim Jong Il.

Secret drone flights from South Korea to the heart of Pyongyang were part of a ploy by the former president to rattle the ...

When he died in December 2011, Kim Jong-il left behind more than a dynastic regime and a closet full of drab pantsuits. Jong-il, who ruled the hermetic North Korea from his father Kim Il Sung’s death ...

Bound by his ferocious loyalty to the ruling dynasty, the former head of state enjoyed a decades-long career in Pyongyang ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Kim Yong Nam, a longtime North Korean ceremonial head of state best known for his trademark propaganda-filled speeches with a deep, booming voice in support of the ruling Kim ...