Kim Jong Il’s game is to score enough foreign aid to keep his regime afloat. He also tends toward extortion. In 1994, Kim agreed to freeze his nuclear weapons program in exchange for aid from ...

“Rumors and speculations circulated for a long time that Kim Jong Il’s first son, Kim Jong Nam, or second son, Kim Jong Chol, would be the successor,” Cheong said.

North Korea has been ruled as a hereditary dictatorship since its founding in 1948 by Kim Il Sung. His son, Kim Jong Il, took over after his father’s death in 1994. And Kim Jong Un took power 17 ...

On the occasion of Kim Jong-Il's demise, a look back at where the two Koreas are, 60 years after a devastating war. Whiting: During This DPRK Changeover, South Koreans Not Hoarding Rice South Koreans ...

His son, Kim Jong Il, took over after his father’s death in 1994. And Kim Jong Un took power 17 years later when Kim Jong Il died. But any near-term change in the North Korean leadership is ...