The Death of Kim Jong Il
Death came by way of physical fatigue, as Pyongyang's official news agency had it.... How he really died — of natural causes or of, well, intervention of a military or conspiratorial sort — will help determine the nature of the successor regime.
Articles
Former North Korean Tyrant Kim Jong Il Liked to Eat Snakes, Hippos and Spiders
The Dear Leader's personal sushi chef reveals a litany of bizarre tastes.
Kim Jong Un: The Boy Whose Country Has Cried `Wolf’ Once Too Often
SEOUL, South Korea -- Nobody does bluster better than Pyongyang. In the last few weeks the country’s hard-working propagandists declared a “state of war” with...
Mass Rally in Pyongyang in Support of Kim Jong Un
(PYONGYANG, North Korea) — Thousands of North Koreans have turned out for a mass rally at the main square in Pyongyang in support of their leader's call to arms...
WATCH: Dennis Rodman Talks the Pope, Kim Jong Un on Jay Leno
And he's not done globe-trotting yet!
North Korea Under Kim Jong Un: Old Threats and New Worries
North Korea's fiery rhetoric isn't new, but the tempo has clearly quickened under Kim Jong Un.
Photo Essays
A House Divided: Photos From Korea’s 1948 Yeosu-Suncheon Rebellion
A few years before the Korean Peninsula erupted in the civil war that saw the North and the South (and the U.S. and China) engaged in a conflict that would help...
North Korea Ratchets Up Tension on The Peninsula
In keeping with the dynasty’s tradition of erratic behavior, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has threatened to bombard a South Korean island with 5,000...
Articles from Around the Web
South Korea rejects North demands
Seoul describes Pyongyang's conditions to re-starting the Kaesong Industrial Complex as' incomprehensible' ...
North Korea sentences American on charges he tried to topple government
SEOUL -- North Korea on Thursday sentenced a detained American to 15 years of'' compulsory labor,'' punishment for what Pyongyang describes as an attempt to overthrow its...
American in North Korea sentenced to 15 years of hard labor
SEOUL -- An American detained for nearly six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of'' compulsory labor'' for unspecified crimes against the state, the government in Pyongyang ...
S. Korea to pull workers from joint industrial complex following blockade by Pyongyang
SEOUL -- After North Korea on Friday rejected formal talks to resolve a standoff at a jointly operated border industrial complex, South Korea said it would call home its remaining...
