North Korea has never formally announced who would succeed Kim Jong-un as supreme leader if he is incapacitated ... He became leader when his father Kim Jong-il died in 2011 from a heart attack.

By Kim Young-jin New North Korean leader Kim Jong-un married a woman some two years his elder in an arrangement made by his ...

Rason, a city on the border with China, will open to foreign tourists, five years after Pyongyang sealed its frontiers over Covid-19.

2009-2011 – Works in the National Defense Commission and serves as Kim Jong Il’s personal secretary December 2011 – Attends her father’s state funeral. March 2014 – Attends the Supreme ...

former Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il. The number of North Koreans who defected to the South last year was 196—triple the previous year, but lower than pre-pandemic levels, according to Seoul's ...

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un is cleaning house within the Workers’ Party of Korea this week, accusing regional leaders of ...

DANDONG, China--When North Korean leader Kim ... Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il gave instructions dozens of times is a very important task of carrying out their behests.” The supreme ...

The commander of U.S. Pacific Command said he believes North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is pursuing nuclear weapons to eventually reunify the Korean peninsula. North Korea conducted ICBM and ...

TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he was told personally about an existence of a nuclear bomb in North Korea by the country’s ex-leader, Kim Jong-il, back at the ...

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un is cleaning house within the Workers ... Since power was consolidated by North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-Sung, in the 1960s, the party has been deemed a kleptocracy ...