and grandfather Kim Il-sung. The visit coincided with the Day of the Shining Star, a national holiday in North Korea on February 16, Kim Jong-il’s birthday. According to the Korean Central News ...

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 ...

SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has visited a military and political university and emphasized the "ideology-first" principle and loyalty in building a powerful military ...

You can watch The Carter Center's full tribute in the video below: Last month, The Jimmy Carter National Historical Park released the first public images of Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter's ...

Mr Kim Il Sung, and his father, marking 1986 as a crucial turning point. “By around 1985, Kim Jong Il’s influence had begun to surpass Kim Il Sung’s, effectively shifting the regime into a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Our era of powerful dictators and authoritarian presidents is a good time to learn more about North Korea ...

Kim's remarks at the Kim Il Sung University of Politics come at a time of political uncertainties at home with many of the more than its 10,000 troops fighting for Russia against Ukraine ...

In 1979, former President Jimmy Carter oversaw the creation of the modern U.S. Department of Education – an accomplishment the Biden administration has hailed as a hallmark of Carter's legacy in ...

According to Ryu, the pair had met through a six-month special course at Kim Il Sung University, a prestigious institution in Pyongyang. The pairing of two prominent North Korean families ...

A bipartisan bill introduced by Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Ga., seeks to posthumously award former President Jimmy Carter the Congressional Gold Medal. At least half of Georgia’s congressional ...