North Korea has never formally announced who would succeed Kim Jong-un as supreme leader if he is incapacitated ... He became leader when his father Kim Jong-il died in 2011 from a heart attack.

By Kim Young-jin New North Korean leader Kim Jong-un married a woman some two years his elder in an arrangement made by his ...

The gaggle of pretty young women jumping up and down at a state reception, screaming out praises of Kim Jong Il, didn't really ... with nuclear capability and supreme indifference to the fate ...

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un is cleaning house within the Workers’ Party of Korea this week, accusing regional leaders of ...

Donald Trump’s convention-busting acknowledgement of North Korea as a nuclear power bucks years of US policy – and sets South Korea on edge.

Kim is considered to have assumed power when he was named supreme commander of the military after his father, Kim Jong Il, died in Dec. 2011. Monday marks ten years since the younger Kim was ...

former Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il. The number of North Koreans who defected to the South last year was 196—triple the previous year, but lower than pre-pandemic levels, according to Seoul's ...

President Donald Trump made a big blunder when he brought up North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un while talking about South Korea. At the Commander in Chief Ball, which pays tribute to military service ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un toasted his “closest comrade ... is the birthday of our national leader, supreme commander-in ...

Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un is cleaning house within the Workers ... Since power was consolidated by North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-Sung, in the 1960s, the party has been deemed a kleptocracy ...