Kim Jong Un is the third member of the Kim family to serve as leader of North Korea. His grandfather Kim Il Sung was the first, and he started an unusual dynastic succession. Photos show how 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 Democratic ...

The statue of Kim Il Sung at the entrance of The Grand People’s Study House in Pyongyang, North Korea. The Diplomat author Mercy Kuo regularly engages subject-matter experts, policy practitioners, and ...

“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 from his son ...

Kim Jong-un is preparing his teenage daughter to take over as the leader of North Korea. The ruler took the reins in 2011 following the death of his father and the secluded nation's second leader, Kim ...

North Korea said Friday that Jang Song Thaek, onetime regent to Kim Jong Un, has been executed for allegedly masterminding a military coup. In a blistering—and bizarre—dispatch, state news agency KCNA ...