Portrays President Bill Clinton and the leaders of North Korea, Kim Il Sung and his son Kim Jong Il, on a collision course over inspection of North Korea's nuclear facilities. How the Kims appeared last week to be risking economic sanctions rather than open all the...
North Korea has remained relatively quiet on South Korea’s political situation in the wake of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived martial law earlier this month. The country’s state media have just run several stories on the impeachment of Yoon, protests and the fallout from the short-li...
In his 2002 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush identified North Korea as one of the countries in the "axis of evil" (along with Iraq and Iran). The Bush administration soon revoked the 1994 treaty designed to eliminate North Korea's nuclear weapons program. Finally, in ...
He was named the Eternal President of the Republic after his death in 1994. Family Life His second wife's name was Kim Song-Ae. He had six children from his two marriages. Associated With He is the father of Kim Jong-il, who served as the President of North Korea from 1994 to 20...
Pyongyang has portrayed the decision to free the American as an act of high-level diplomatic largesse, saying the release was ordered by leader Kim Jong Un following the “repeated requests” of US President Barack Obama. However, the US State Department declined to provide any details of how...
PYONGYANG, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), on Wednesday sent a condolence message and a wreath to the family of Lee Hee-ho, wife of former South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, the DPRK's official Korean Central News Ag...
and he will press Mr. Trump on the fate of the remainingJapanese abductees kidnapped by North Korean agentsin the 1970s and 1980s."I want to make sure to be on the same page with President Trump ahead of the first ever U.S.-North Korea summit so we can push forward nuclear and mi...
In December 1972, the North Korean Supreme People's Congress established the North Korean socialist constitution. The same session elected Kim Il Sung president of North Korea for the first time; he was reelected in 1977 and 1982, and remained president until his death in 1994. The famine ...
Kim (2018) examines that the Former South Korean president, Moon Jae In, indexes ce in his presidential speeches. Meanwhile, in (2021), South Koreans metapragmatically perceive that Kim Jong Un's use of ce during the South-North Korea summit contributes to managing North Korea's threatening ...
President Donald Trump says he wouldn't approve of U.S. intelligence agencies using family members of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as assets.