Kim Il Sung cuts new figure. In N. Korea, new statues of leader’s grandfather replace old. August 2, 2015 at 5:12 a.m. by ANNA FIFIELD THE WASHINGTON POST ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (R) and his son Kim Jong Un (3rd R) salute as they watch soldiers attending a military parade in the Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang Sept. 9, 2011.

Kim Il Sung managed to transform the agrarian northern half of the Korean Peninsula into a militarized yet modernized economy that outperformed U.S.-backed South Korea using a "guns-and-steel ...

When Kim Il Sung’s heart stopped beating exactly 20 years ago — on July 8, 1994 — the propagandists didn’t let the mere fact of his death get in the way. The 82-year-old founder of the ...

As he explained, the year 1982 would conveniently fall 70 years after the birth of Kim Il Sung, the founder of the North Korean communist state and Kim's grandfather, and 40 years after the birth ...

When North Korean founder Kim Il Sung died exactly 20 years ago on Tuesday, it came as a shock to many inside and outside the country. Though he was 82 years old at the time, Mr. Kim had shown few ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is believed to have turned 40 years old, ... According to BBC News, the birthdays of his father Kim Jong Il (Feb. 16) and grandfather Kim Il Sung (April 15) ...

"Kim Jong Il knows how miserable the people live. But he blinds himself behind those black sunglasses he loves to wear in public," Sunmu said. Hunger drove Sunmu to cross the river bordering North ...

Kim Jong-un, the son of Kim Jong-il who was ... watched the festivities and reviewed squads of goose-stepping troops with his 68-year-old father and ... The event was held in Kim Il-sung ...

A thin-looking Kim Jong Il made a rare public appearance Wednesday as North Korea paid solemn respects to his father, the country's late founder, on the 15th anniversary of his death.The memorial ...

As the possible fourth generation of Kim despots, the little girl would follow in the footsteps of great-grandfather Kim Il Sung, grandfather Kim Jong Il and father Kim Jong Un. Sung-Yoon Lee, a ...

Kim Il Sung cuts new figure In N. Korea, new statues of leader’s grandfather replace old August 2, 2015 by ANNA FIFIELD THE WASHINGTON POST ...