This created the first nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula. But on June 8, 1994 — about two weeks before the Inter-Korean Summit — Kim Il Sung suddenly died, leaving the two Koreas in disarray. It ...

North Korea has begun celebrations for the anniversary of late former leader Kim Jong-il's birthday, a national holiday, by ...

1942 -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is born. He took power after his father Kim Il-sung, founder of the communist country, died in 1994.

"The fact is that when Kim Jong-il’s father, Kim Il-sung, died, the post of president of the DPRK was left to him, thereby making him the ‘eternal president.’ Similarly, when Kim Jong-un’s ...

In 1976, an official said to rival then-president Kim Il Sung died in a car crash. In 2003 a predecessor to Kim Yang Gon died in a traffic accident, and in 2010 top official Ri Je Gang also died ...

has secured the same absolute power enjoyed by Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung, the current leader’s grandfather and state founder. Despite massive economic shocks caused by draconian anti-virus ...

Amid escalating tensions due to North Korea's development of nuclear weapons, President Kim Il-Sung died suddenly. Sensing an impeding crisis due to North Korea's destabilized regime, China began ...