Kim Il Sung's son and political successor, Kim Jong Il, never claimed the title of "Great President," presumably out of deference to his father. Upon his death in 2012, Kim Jong Il was written ...

Suzuki Masayuki, the first person to be awarded a doctorate in North Korean politics in Japan, called the North Korean political system ... was still led by Kim Il Sung, but it is surprising ...

Kim Il-Sung’s birthday is known as the “Day ... and many were relocated to a secret system of political prisoner camps. These camps [kwanliso], part of Kim’s vast network of abusive penal ...

“There can be little doubt,” writes Fyodor Tertitskiy, that Kim Il Sung “is the darkest figure ... In later years, he milked Moscow for aid and political support when Mao soured on him.

The Juche is Kim Il-sung’s political thesis that states that the Korean masses are masters of the country’s development. Kim Il-sung ran North Korea as a personal dictatorship for 46 years ...

Graham supposedly said, “Having observed the Supreme Leader Kim Il-sung’s unique political leadership, I can only think that he is God.” The man who raised the Bible at thousands of crusades ...

To promote recovery after decades of colonial subjugation and the turmoil of the Korean War, North Korean leader Kim Il Sung’s regime promoted a set ... discriminatory class-status system known as ...

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 ...

Kim's remarks at the Kim Il Sung University of Politics come at a time of political uncertainties at home with many of the more than its 10,000 troops fighting for Russia against Ukraine ...