Kim Jong Un is the third member of the Kim family to serve as leader of North Korea. His grandfather Kim Il Sung was the first, and he started an unusual dynastic succession. Photos show how the ...

The guns fell silent in the Korean War seven decades ago, but the hostilities never truly ended. Today, North Korea’s secretive dictator oversees an isolated society and command economy, portraying ...

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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s test-firing of its latest intercontinental ballistic missile early Monday captured headlines across Asia. Predictably, the launch ignited indignant protests from ...

When North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sat down to sign the guestbook at a space center last week as part of his momentous meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a young woman casually leaned ...

North Korea has wiped all record of an out-of-favor actor from a popular TV show, per NK News. The actor is rumored to have links to Jang Song Taek, who Kim Jong-Un had executed. The actor was ...

The sudden rise of Kim Jong Un’s young daughter suggests she’s “the chosen one” to succeed him as North Korea’s Supreme Leader — potentially to the doom of his once-powerful sister, according to ...

The outpouring of love and care that North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un is publicly lavishing on his (roughly) 10-year-old daughter, Ju Ae, could spell trouble for his controversial, outspoken younger ...

Ever since Kim Jong Un took office, his administration has been marked by a rapid turnover of senior military officials, perhaps most notably the 2013 execution of Vice Chairman of the National ...

Officials in Seoul could not be reached for comment on the reported death. Kim Jong-Nam fell out of favour with the North Korean hierarchy following a botched attempt in 2001 to enter Japan on a ...

(AP) The execution of leader Kim Jong Un’s uncle marks the unprecedented fall from grace of one of the most powerful figures in North Korea and the most serious political upheaval in the country in ...

(AP) While hereditary leader Kim Jong Un is the unquestioned ruler of North Korea, until last weekend his uncle, Jang Song Thaek, was thought to be the country’s second-most-powerful figure, widely ...