Kim Jong Il's dominating personality and complete concentration of power have come to define the country North Korea.
Kim Jong Il inherited power after his father, revered North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, died in 1994. He had been groomed for 20 years to lead the communist nation founded by his guerrilla fighter-turned-politician father and built according to the principle of "juche," or self-reliance. K...
they used a series of Presidential Trains to get around. The trains, of which there are supposedly six, are heavily armored and extremely luxurious, though little else is known about them. It was on one of these trains that Kim Jong-Il supposedly died. ...
As the eldest son of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il, Jong Nam was considered the heir apparent before reportedly being exiled to China due to the incident at Narita Airport, which is said to have embarrassed his father, thus leading to Jong Nam's swift replacement by his younger sibling Jong U...
Rogen and Goldberg initially conceived of the film as about North Korea's former leader, Kim Jong Il, who died in late 2011. Goldberg says they did "a big old search" of the world's dictators, settling on North Korea because its bizarreness, he said, was rife for comedy. ...
Nearly three weeks after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's no-show at a key event sparked rumours he was seriously ill or even dead, state media published
Jean H Lee
There were particular reasons why North Korean leader Kim Jong Un underwent heart surgery at the Hyang San Hospital instead of a hospital in Pyongyang.
North Korean state media said that Kim Jong Il died of a heart attack while travelling on the train in 2011. In November 2009, conservative South Korean daily Chosun Ilbo reported that the armoured train featured around 90 carriages. The green vehicle with a yellow stripe also had conference ...
However, pictures of him examining a military spy satellite with his daughter last month appear to show he has gained weight since then. The third-generation hereditary leader came to power after his father Kim Jong Il died in 2011 from a heart attack....