在朝鲜战争后的一系列权力斗争中巩固并扩大到掌握絕對权力，通過實行完全的個人崇拜及家族世襲統治。(Kim Il-sung) (维基百科金日成 (Kim Il-sung)) ...

Biographies abound of Hitler, Stalin and Mao, but those of Kim are hard to come by: “Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader,” by Suh Dae-sook, was the last good one, published in 1988, six years ...

“There can be little doubt,” writes Fyodor Tertitskiy, that Kim Il Sung “is the darkest figure in all of Korea’s history.” If this Lord of Darkness has any competition at all, it comes ...

Tertitskiy stops short of declaring Kim Il Sung to be unadulteratedly evil because ... His mannerisms weren’t even Korean: After his first public speech as North Korea’s leader, one eyewitness ...

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 Korea threatened retaliation on Thursday after the United States flew long-range B-1B bombers over South Korea during a joint training exercise. The drill took place on Tuesday, which North ...

The marathon, which was launched in 1981, took place annually in April to celebrate the birth of its founding leader Kim Il Sung North Korea has held the Pyongyang International Marathon for the ...

People visit the statues of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, North Korea, on the occasion of the 113th birth anniversary of ...