In 1956, Mao Zedong was so angry with Kim Il Sung that he told Moscow he might use the 400,000 Chinese troops still in North Korea to “help Kim Il-sung correct his mistakes,” a thinly veiled proposal ...

Chinese leader Jiang Zemin (term: 1993-2003) was aghast when his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-il told him, “I have to inspect northeastern China.” Jiang said the word “inspect ...

ROLL OVER, KIM IL SUNG. Published Jan 28, 2001 at 7:00 PM EST Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 8:54 PM EST. By ...

Newsweek published this story under the headline of "Headless Beast: NORTH KOREA AFTER KIM" on July 18, 1994 after Kim Il Sung, then dictator of North Korea, died. In light of recent news ...

A picture of Mao Zedong and Kim Il-sung on a remaining section of the Hekou Broken Bridge, which connected China and North Korea before it was bombed by the United States Army during the Korean War.

Biographies abound of Hitler, Stalin and Mao, but those of Kim are hard to come by: “Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader,” by Suh Dae-sook, was the last good one, published in 1988, six years ...

Like Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong’s fourth wife and one of the leaders of China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Kim Jong Il sought to tear apart existing forms in film (and in opera) so he ...

Hong Kong-based historian Frank Dikötter, in his book How to be a Dictator, describes how Mao Zedong put himself at the apex of the new China, ensuring his portraits were everywhere, and that ...

Biographies abound of Hitler, Stalin and Mao, but those of Kim are hard to come by: “Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader,” by Suh Dae-sook, was the last good one, published in 1988, six years ...