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 ...

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 ...

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 ruled the country from its establishment ... dissenters and their entire extended families to a secret system of political prisoner camps. The total stifling of political and civil ...

“One of the reasons for political continuity despite ... the regime controls society,” notes Gause. The system evolved along with Kim Il-sung’s successful grab for supreme power.

As brutally tyrannical as he could be, Kim Il Sung retained political legitimacy after 46 ... the North Korean ability to control their system," said Kil Jeong Woo of Seoul's Research Institute ...

Kim Il Sung, now 82, got his quilt ... “He wants to maintain his political system. I don’t think (the Carter deal) will help him.” The Great Leader’s official biography says he was ...

“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 ...

a political scientist at Yonsei University. "Mao Zedong died in China. But in North Korea, Kim Il Sung is still alive in a way." Maybe someday he can rest in peace.

Citizens carried red plastic flowers and walked alongside floats with political slogans to Kim Il Sung Square. KCNA VIA KNS/AFP via Getty Images Such a parade could offer Kim an opportunity to ...