Kim’s emphasis on Chongryon is distinct from that of his father and predecessor, Kim Jong Il. In the early years of that ...

The gaggle of pretty young women jumping up and down at a state reception, screaming out praises of Kim Jong Il, didn't really ... even by hanging his portrait askew—ended in prison camps ...

Another packed a portrait of Kim Jong-il (the father of the current leader) wrapped in a red silk scarf in her bag." This kind of idolisation of a leader is alien to South Korea's younger ...

He paints a bleak portrait of his village ... Mr Jang makes no claim to speak from within Kim Jong Il's closest circle. But as a poet laureate, on the inside of the Kims' mythmaking machine ...

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

1, 2023, shows a mosaic portrait featuring North Korean Kim ... to take an oath of allegiance on Feb. 16, the birthday of Kim Jong-il, the late father of the incumbent leader, and April 15 ...

North Korea's premier party institution conducted a seminar focused on implementing Kim Jong Un's latest political theories ...