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 ...

Comrade Prime Minister Kim Il Sung, We have received both your letters ... the withdrawal of the Chinese People's Volunteers from Korea. We feel that it is more appropriate for the Democratic ...

Crucially, Carter came up with a deal where North Korea would stop its nuclear activity, allow IAEA inspectors back into its ...

Kim Jong-il was born in 1941 in the Siberian village of Vyatskoye. He would follow his father Kim Il-sung as the second ...

Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. He also explains what North Korean propaganda is like, what Hollywood movies and TV shows are shown to the public, and why he believes the North Korean Storm Corps ...

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 ...

The change in international affairs was symbolized by Germany’s unification in 1990, and it seemed like a new era for inter-Korean relations with both Koreas joining the United Nations at the same ...

Writer Jang Jin-sung’s office in Dapshipni, eastern Seoul, a sleepy neighborhood, evokes memories of the old Seoul, the Seoul of the 1970s and 1980s before the arrival of glimmering high-rises. The ...

when his father ordered his return to North Korea. Once he was back, Kim started attending Kim Il Sung Military University with his older brother Kim Jong Chol. Although his father, Kim Jong Il ...

Had he not been born the son of Kim Il Sung—still North Korea's Great Leader and eternal ... and dreamed of killing Japanese with it. That was his best toy until, in 2006, he tested a nuclear ...