Mr. Tertitskiy, a South Korea-based historian, has pulled off a rare and impressive biographical feat—his “Accidental Tyrant” is a book-length account of the life of Kim, the founder of ...

In her new book, “Black Girl from Pyongyang,” Monica Macias writes about growing up in North Korea under the care of leader Kim Il Sung after being sent away by her own father, Francisc… ...

‘A Kim Jong-Il Production’ is a new book by Paul Fischer. Meanwhile in Pyongyang, ... Having been told she was “going to the bosom of General Kim Il Sung,” Eun-Hee fainted.

Biographies abound of Hitler, Stalin and Mao, but those of Kim are hard to come by: “Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader,” by Suh Dae-sook, was the last good one, published in 1988, six years ...