North Korea threatened retaliation on Thursday after the United States flew long-range B-1B bombers over South Korea during a joint training exercise. The drill took place on Tuesday, which North ...

The joint air drill happened on the 113th anniversary of the birthday of Kim Il Sung, the founder of North Korea, which raised tensions. The strategic deployment of US long-range bombers in the region ...

Kim Shin-jo, a former North Korean commando who resettled in South Korea as a pastor after his daring mission to assassinate then-South Korean President Park Chung-hee in 1968 failed, died April 9 ...

Biographies abound of Hitler, Stalin and Mao, but those of Kim are hard to come by: “Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader,” by Suh Dae-sook, was the last good one, published in 1988, six years ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Birth place: Sources vary between Khabarovsk, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics/Siberia and Mount Paektu, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Father: Kim Il Sung, former president of ...