Kim Il Sung started telling those around him that his son would take over the leadership role. In July 1972, the South and North Korea Joint Communique was announced. Kang, who was then the ...

Their own son was born in the same year as the younger ... closely tied to the power shift between his grandfather, Mr Kim Il Sung, and his father, marking 1986 as a crucial turning point.

The son had not visited his father and grandfather ... to continue the revolutionary ideas of his ancestors, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. The Korean agency also quotes Kim Jong Un's words ...

The son born in 1941 was called Yura ... Soviet Union but in a secret guerrilla camp on Korea’s Mount Paektu. Kim Il Sung was seen by Moscow as “sufficiently native and sufficiently Soviet”.

Both his birthday and that of late national founder Kim Il Sung, on April 15 ... photos and videos of not only Kim Jong-il but also his son and current leader Kim Jong-un, with the KCNA ...

North Korea marked the 83rd birthday of late leader Kim Jong-il, with its propaganda machine calling for loyalty for Kim's son and current leader Kim Jong-un, according to the North's state media ...

Birth place: Sources vary between Khabarovsk, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics/Siberia and Mount Paektu, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Father: Kim Il Sung, former president of ...