Euronews
| Apr 15, 2013
It is the Day of the Sun in North Korea, which celebrates the anniversary of the birth of the state's founder Kim Il-Sung. As is traditional it was marked with flowers, but there was no parade to showcase the country's military muscle as some expe...
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MBC
| Apr 12, 2013
North Korea appears to be preparing to launch at least one medium-range rocket to celebrate the anniversary of founding father Kim Il-sung's birth. South Korea and the US have anti-missile batteries ready to shoot down the rocket if it poses a thr...
Associated Press
| Apr 12, 2013
As John Kerry landed in Seoul for talks amid fears of an impending North Korean missile launch, Pyongyang kicked off days of celebrations for Kim Il-sung's birthday with a flower show that featured models of the country's missiles and rockets amid...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Mar 1, 2013
Dennis Rodman wrapped up his bizarre "basketball diplomacy" trip to Pyongyang with some words of praise for the Kim dynasty. Kim Jong-un is an "awesome guy" and his father and grandfather were "great leaders," the former NBA star told reporters.
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MBC
| Nov 2, 2012
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's wife, Ri Sol-ju, had not been seen in public for 53 days before the couple attended a music performance last week. South Korea broadcaster MBC speculates on why she disappeared.
LinkAsia
| Jul 20, 2012
In the wake of Ri Yong-ho's dismissal, LinkAsia host Yul Kwon speaks with Columbia University's Charles Armstrong about how young North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is distancing himself from his father's generation and consolidating his power.
Channel 4 News
| Apr 24, 2012
International Editor Lindsey Hilsum meets Shin Dong-hyuk, who for the first 23 years of his life knew nothing of life outside the walls of Camp 14, a gulag in North Korea. He didn't know the name of his own country's capital, who its leader was, o...
LinkAsia
| Apr 20, 2012
New North Korean leader Kim Jong-un used the occasion of his grandfather Kim Il-sung's 100 birthday to address his people and the world publicly for the first time. South Korean broadcaster MBC's report give perspective from the Korean Peninsula.
LinkAsia
| Apr 20, 2012
A Japanese newspaper has obtained the text of statements made by the young North Korean leader that open up the possibility of reform. Host Yul Kwon speaks with Peter Beck, Korea country representative at the Asia Foundation, about the probability...
LinkAsia
| Jan 17, 2012
Albert Einstein. Leonardo da Vinci. Kim Jong-un? According to North Korean TV, the 20-something Jong-un is "a genius among geniuses." And state media has been busy pumping up the image of Kim Jong-un as a worthy successor to his father and grandfa...
— Dec 19, 2011 at 08:13 am
...of his birth was 1941. 9 September 1948: Kim-il sung establishes the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the northern half of the Korean pe...
— Dec 20, 2011 at 09:04 am
...daily, Rodong Sinmun, legitimized the third-generation dynastic succession by calling Korea “the Kim Il-sung nation” and “the Kim Jong-il Korea....
Kim Il-sung, also romanised as Kim Il Sung was the leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonly referred to as North Korea, from its establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. He held the posts of Prime Minister from 1948 to 1972 and President from 1972 to his death. He was also the leader of the Workers' Party of Korea from 1949 to 1994. He invaded South Korea in 1950, and almost succeeded in overrunning the entire peninsula but for UN intervention. The Korean War, sometimes referred to as the Korean Civil War, ended with an armistice on July 27, 1953.
His tenure as leader of North Korea has often been described as autocratic, and he established an all-pervasive cult of personality. From the mid-1960s, he promoted his self-developed Juche variant of socialist organisation, which later replaced Marxism-Leninism as the ideology of the state in 1972. In the Library of Congress Country Study on North Korea in 2009, he was described as "one of the most intriguing figures of the twentieth century". He outlived Joseph Stalin by four decades, Mao Zedong by two, and remained in power during the terms of office of six South Korean presidents, seven Soviet leaders, ten U.S. presidents, fourteen UK Prime Ministers and twenty-one Japanese prime ministers.
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