Before defecting to South Korea in 1991, Ko was a diplomat in Pyongyang who served as an interpreter of French for the country’s founder, Kim Il Sung. Ko cited recent news reports from the ...

Kim Il-sung ruined the economy, hoarded power and saw his countrymen slaughtered, as Fyodor Tertitskiy’s Accidental Tyrant reveals On October 14 1945, a crowd in Pyongyang gathered to hear an ...

Cheong explained that Kim Jong-un's move to central Pyongyang was closely tied to the power shift between his grandfather, Kim Il-sung, and his father, Kim Jong-il, marking 1986 as a crucial ...

flew in demonstrations while circling in the sky over (Kim Il-sung) square, doubling the joy of ... of high-level guests from Moscow and Beijing, Pyongyang is also “trying to send the US and ...

People bow before the statues of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang in 2020.

In the square, which is among the thirty largest in the world and can accommodate more than one hundred thousand people, a guard of honor was lined up PYONGYANG, June 19. /TASS/. The official ...