By Kim Young-jin New North Korean leader Kim Jong-un married a woman some two years his elder in an arrangement made by his ...

At the time, the NIS speculated that her husband might be a fellow graduate of Kim Il-sung University, although his identity has not been confirmed. Further speculation arose in February 2018 ...

Crucially, Carter came up with a deal where North Korea would stop its nuclear activity, allow IAEA inspectors back into its reactors, and eventually dismantle Yongbyon's facilities. In return, the US ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Todor Merdjanov, 33, a Bulgarian university student who spent a month in September 2013 attending Korean language classes at Kim Il Sung ...

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’s transforming political context is witnessing two particular social clans as new bandwagon for the nation’s ...

He learned to walk in three weeks, to talk in eight; he wrote six operas and 1,500 books while a student at Kim Il Sung University, and scored five holes-in-one in his first game of golf.