A choral performance attended by Kim Jong Un, the elder Kim's grandson, was held on Sunday (April 16), a day after a huge military parade in Pyongyang, which also marked the 105th birth ...

Kim Jong Il, made about a dozen trips abroad during his 17-year rule, almost all to China and all by train. North Korea’s state media said that the elder Kim died of a heart attack during a ...

Kim, 86, is a prominent church elder who leads an ad hoc committee helping promote better politics at the National Council of Churches in Korea. It is one of the four largest church alliances in ...

Pulikovsky also noted that "'beautiful lady conductors' frequently serenaded the elder Kim in Korean and Russian" as a form of entertainment. Kim Jong Un does not appear to differ too much from ...

He reportedly took over the residence from his father, Kim Jong-il after the elder Kim’s death in 2011. The residence is located near Sinuiju, in the North P’yŏngan province of North Korea.

The elder Kim once took his train from Pyongyang to Moscow in 2001, a marathon 20,000km round trip that took about 24 days. The train was well stocked, however, with fresh lobster and cases of ...