SBS 'Kkomu' will release a real confession video of serial killer Kang Ho-soon for the first time in broadcasting history ...

On June 25, 1950, more than 135,000 North Korean troops invaded South Korea, starting the Korean War that cost millions of ...

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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 ...

Kim Il Sung was seen by Moscow as “sufficiently native and sufficiently Soviet”. But when they installed him to lead North Korea in 1945 he made an unimpressive debut.

Kim Il Sung’s grandson, Kim Jong Un, is playing the courteous host. For the first time in the troubled history of Moscow-Pyongyang relations, he has become an equal partner.

North Korean soldiers passing in front of Kim il Sung and Kim Jong il giant portraits on Kim il Sung square, Pyongan Province, Pyongyang. Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us In his book The Real North ...

Accordingly, even the slightest development regarding the role of Kim Jong Un has to be taken very seriously. However, due care must be taken also that we do not only see what we want to see.

Kim Il-Sung > Country: North Korea > Years in charge: 1949-1994 As dictator of North Korea Kim Il-Sung led the country into the Korean War. His economic policies resulted in famine.

On her left: the North Korean founder Kim Il-sung. This first visit to North Korea took place in 1977 when Monica, her older sister, Maribel, brother, Fran, and her parents were on a state visit.