North Korea celebrated the birth anniversary Wednesday of founder Kim Il-Sung, with current leader Kim Jong-Un paying respects at his grandfather's mausoleum, as rights groups highlighted his ...

North Korea’s current first lady, Ri Sol-ju, is believed to be a graduate of Kim Il-Sung University, and her husband Kim Jong-un, went there as well, although he got some of his education abroad.

In addition, April 15 is North Korean founder Kim Il-sung’s birthday. Pyongyang often marks that important holiday by conducting tests or holding large military parades.

North Korean soldiers, workers and students place flowers before the statues of North Korean founder Kim Il-sung (L) and his son, late leader Kim Jong-il, on the 101st anniversary of Kim Il-sung's ...

According to international experts (North Korea has not published economic statistics since the 1960s), by the end of the Kim Il-sung’s rule the North Korean economy shrank by half compared to ...

May 3 (UPI) -- North Korean state media claimed censorship in the South was preventing the publication of Kim Il Sung 's memoir after special interest groups said sales of the book violate a local ...

Kim Il Sung’s North Korea was never the socialist paradise portrayed on posters, but through the 1960s it was at least a functioning, if brutal and repressive, state.

After seven decades in the South, a former POW has a final wish: to spend his twilight inside a Kim regime he never stopped ...

On April 1, a small South Korean publisher made available all eight volumes of Kim Il Sung ’s “With the Century,” which was first released in North Korea in 1992 and has been available in ...

At the White House, President Trump and Lee Jae Myung praised each other’s eagerness to talk to North Korea’s leader — even ...

April 5 (UPI) -- North Korea paid tribute to regime founder Kim Il Sung and his "noble life" the same day state media reported Workers' Party officials visited the mausoleum of late leaders.