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 ...

Thousands of North Korean lined the snowy streets of Pyongyang on Wednesday morning to watch the funeral procession of Kim Jong-il. Images from North Korea state TV showed wailing mourners throwing ...

Surprising no one, it was a strange occasion with a lot of weeping involved. If you ever wanted to see Orwell’s vision for 1984 in real life (and I’m not sure why you would), this is remarkably close.

Kim Jong-il and ’80s hair metal were almost synonymous, and last night when the world found out that the North Korean leader passed on to the big rock show in the sky, all I could listen to was hair ...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea carried out a meticulously choreographed funeral for late leader Kim Jong Il on Wednesday and affirmed that the country was now in the 'warm care' of his ...

Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the videos that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention. Today: A sobbing mob of "sad" women at Kim Jong Il's funeral, former SNL cast member ...