Book review: ‘A Kim Jong-Il Producton,’ on filmmaking under duress, by Paul Fischer. January 30, 2015. Bradley K. Martin is the author of “Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North ...

As Paul Fischer, the book version’s author, reminds us, Kim Jong Il focused much of his time and enthusiasm on show business over the decades he was securing his position as designated successor ...

At the same time, he ably sums up the political atmosphere on both sides of the 38th parallel, the rise of Kim Jong Il as North Korea’s filmmaker-in-chief and how his well-received movies helped ...

Yup, Kim Jong-Il Wrote a Children's Book. by Tori Telfer. March 17, 2014. Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images News/Getty Images. Parents, hide your children, or at least monitor their reading vigilantly.

The author of a new book on North Korea says late leader Kim Jong Il's eldest son believes the country now run by his young half brother could fail without economic reforms.

A new book details the unbelievable story of a young Kim Jong-Il who once kidnapped a South Korean actor and director and forces them to fall in love and make films for him.

After he escaped from North Korea in 2001 during a run to Tokyo to buy sea urchin, Fujimoto wrote a book called “I Was Kim Jong Il’s Chef,” which became fodder for countless stories on the ...