Tens of thousands of Pyongyang residents bid farewell to their leader. SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 28, 2011— -- Tens of thousands of Pyongyang residents bid an emotional farewell to their late ...

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 Democratic ...

(Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is the general secretary of the ruling Workers' Party which will start a conference Tuesday, bringing together the secretive state's political elite for the ...

Studying Kim Jong Il requires, as one of the few who made a living at it once declared, “a certain defective personality type.” Said retired U.S. diplomat Daniel Jackson, “Not only do you have to ...

North Korean TV reported the leader was dead; third son named heir. Dec. 19, 2011— -- Kim Jong Il, the North Korean dictator who ruled over one of the poorest, most belligerent and isolated ...

The world knows so little about the inner workings of the North Korean regime that the appearance of Kim Jong-Il's former sushi chef at a press conference held here at the Foreign Correspondent’s Club ...

SEOUL, Jan. 11 -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il toured Shanghai on Wednesday after reportedly arriving on a direct flight from the North Korean capital in what would mark the reclusive ruler's first ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - One of China's leading experts on Japan has vanished into custody after speaking about the health of reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, a source close to the scholar said ...