SHAH ALAM, Malaysia (AP) — Defense lawyers in the trial of two women accused of killing the estranged half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sought Wednesday to establish there was a ...

He was poisoned by two women who appeared to be carrying out an assassination order from Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. Never fully accepted by his family, sidelined by his powerful stepmother ...

In a country where political purges are frequent, Mr. Kim was a notable exception and served three generations of its dynastic rulers. By Choe Sang-Hun Reporting from Seoul Kim Yong-nam, North Korea’s ...

North Korea reported that its long-time ceremonial Head of State Kim Yong Nam died at age 97. Kim Yong Nam, former president of the Presidium of North Korea’s rubber-stamp Supreme People’s Assembly, ...

Kim Yong Nam, a quintessential North Korean bureaucrat whose lifelong loyalty to the ruling Kim dynasty allowed him to serve as the country’s ceremonial head of state for two decades, has died, state ...

SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Yong Nam, a quintessential North Korean bureaucrat whose lifelong loyalty to the ruling Kim dynasty allowed him to serve as the country’s ceremonial head of state for two ...