North Korea's supreme leader Kim Jong-il has received a letter from U.S. President Bill Clinton through a special U.S. envoy, Pyongya g's official media said Wednesday.Korea Times (Seoul, Korea)
In a speech during the memorial, Gen. Kim Jong Gak, a top political officer in the Korean People's Army, said the military will dedicate itself to protecting Kim Jong Un, calling him the "supreme leader of our revolutionary armed forces." This week's events have been watched closely for ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was absent from a gathering of top party and government officials on Thursday, state television showed, fueling speculation that health problems may be keeping the 31-year-old out of the public eye. Kim had been expected to attend a meeting of the Supreme Peop...
The supreme leader CBS/Randy Schmidt North Korean leader Kim Jong Un appears on a balcony in central Pyongyang to wave to gathered crowds before observing a parade to mark a national holiday on what would have been the founding father of North Korea, Kim Il Sung’s 105th birthday. Something...
While Kim Jong-un is their Supreme Leader, he is not the entire country. Many advocates are working hard to change the narrative of North Korea from being reduced to a country of one man. More and more, stories of North Korean people are reaching broader audiences. ...
the Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army, and presidium member of the Politburo of the Workers’ Party of Korea. He was officially declared the supreme leader following the state funeral for his father on 28 December 2011. He is the third and youngest son of Kim Jong-il and his...
According to American Broadcasting Company, the North Korean leader Kim Jeong-eun is taking a series of measures to build a new image of North Korea, including allowing women to wear trousers. Thick soled shoes Some western foods are allowed to go public, such as chips and hamburgers, and ...
In the beginning of his reign — he was North Korea’s supreme leader from 1994 to 2011 — North Korea denied that it had a nuclear weapons program. TIMELINE OF NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCHES IN 2017 However, in 2003, Pyongyang announced that North Korea was withdrawing from the 1968 Nucle...
Third-generation Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un has held absolute authority over the one-party state since 2011. North Korea is currently facing one of its most severe economic crises and food shortages since the devastating famine of the 1990s. In recent years, inter-Korean relations have seen ...
North Korea says it will permanently block its border with South Korea and build front-line defense structures to cope with “confrontational hysteria” by South Korean and U.S. forces, while not announcing an expected constitutional revision to designat