North Korea's New Year holiday is marked by visits to the mausoleum of its two late leaders and affirmations of allegiance to incumbent leader Kim Jong-un.

For the first time in over five years, foreign tourists can now visit North Korea, just in time for late leader Kim Jong Il's ...

A tour operator said today it had opened bookings for trips to a North Korean border city to celebrate former leader Kim Jong Il’s birthday ... five years after Pyongyang sealed its frontiers ...

In separate dispatches, the KCNA reported that students in Pyongyang gathered at Kim Il Sung Square on Tuesday night to hoist the national flag and launch fireworks in celebration of New Year ...

In June 1994, the former US president arrived for talks in Pyongyang with then leader Kim Il-sung. It was unprecedented, marking the first time a former or sitting US president had visited.

Kim’s emphasis on Chongryon is distinct from that of his father and predecessor, Kim Jong Il. In the early years of that ...

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 ...

North Koreans also bow to statues of Kim Jong Il, the father of their current leader, Kim Jong Un. And though the capital, Pyongyang, remains closed to tourists, “there are a lot of people who ...