She wasn’t part of the ruling Kim family’s sacred revolutionary bloodline. She rarely appeared in state media. And then, she ...

It’s certainly a story that bears retelling. As Paul Fischer, the book version’s author, reminds us, Kim Jong Il focused much of his time and enthusiasm on show business during the decades he ...

As Paul Fischer, the book version’s author, reminds us, Kim Jong Il focused much of his time and enthusiasm on show business over the decades he was securing his position as designated successor ...

Here's an easy one: North Korea's Kim Jong-Il orders a famous South Korean film director and his actress wife kidnapped and brought into the country to remake a tepid film industry with dreams of ...

A selection of these compelling photos have now been published in a book by Jean Boîte Éditions: Kim Jong Il Looking at Things.The pictures, originally distributed by the official Korean Central ...

And one with a sharp tongue.As Sung-Yoon Lee, a Fellow at The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars writes in his new book, “The Sister,” Kim Yo Jong is her nation’s “chief ...

Ms Ko and Mr Ri were closely connected to Mr Kim Jong Il and a young Kim Jong Un before they decided to flee North Korea in 1998. Their own son was born in the same year as the younger Mr Kim.

Homes and public offices must display portraits of Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung, ... In his book The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia, ...

CNN Opinion interviewed Sung-Yoon Lee about Kim Yo Jong’s remarkable rise in North Korea’s highly patriarchal society, and how much power she really wields beyond the tough talk.