Contrary to what its apologists claim, North Korea owes its existence to the Russians, who declared war on Japan two days ...

The book also discloses that the initiation of ... was closely tied to the power shift between his grandfather, Mr Kim Il Sung, and his father, marking 1986 as a crucial turning point.

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Our era of powerful dictators and authoritarian presidents is a good time to learn more about North Korea’s Kim Il Sung, the ultimate ... sources for his latest book. He concludes that while ...

Cheong Seong-chang, director of the Center for Korean Peninsula Strategy at the Sejong Institute, is a longtime observer of ...

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 ...