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 ...

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 ...

North Korea's former state propaganda artist, living in South Korea. SEOUL, December 24, 2009 — -- Sunmu always knew that his talent lay in art. Unlike many other North Korean boys forced into ...

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 ...

North Korea's Kim Jong-Un in front of flags - Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images Kim Jong-Un was not originally supposed to succeed his father, Kim Jong-Il, as the Supreme Leader of North Korea. For a time, ...

When North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un stepped off his armored train in Beijing to attend celebrations marking 80 years since the end of WWII in Asia, his young daughter Kim Ju Ae surprised the cameras ...

North Korea's new leader was among the public mourners as the body of Kim Jong-il was shown lying in state on Korean television today. It was the first public appearance by Kim Jong-un since his ...

South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun signed an eight-point peace agreement with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on Thursday at a summit in Pyongyang, North Korea. The leaders pledged to work toward ...