Before defecting to South Korea in 1991, Ko was a diplomat in Pyongyang who served as an interpreter of French for the country’s founder, Kim Il Sung. Ko cited recent news reports from the ...

North Korean children playing folk games at last year's Lunar New Year celebration at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea Feb. 10, 2024. [AP/YONHAP] North Korea's New Year holiday is ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Soldiers wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus rally to welcome the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Oct. 12 ...