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.
LinkAsia
| Dec 28, 2012
It's been a year since North Korea's Kim Jong-il died, pushing his inexperienced 28-year-old son onto center stage. To assess Kim Jong-un's first year, LinkAsia speaks with Philip Yun, COO of the anti-nuke group Ploughshares Fund and a former Stat...
LinkAsia
| Dec 28, 2012
What is life like for normal North Koreans? Few Westerners have ever had the experiences that former Ambassador John Everard had in the Hermit Kingdom. LinkAsia speaks with Everard, British ambassador to Pyongyang from 2006 and 2009, about his new...
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MBC
| Dec 12, 2012
In the first "special broadcast" on North Korea's state television since the death of Kim Jong-il, the DPRK announced that it successfully launched the Unha-3 long-range rocket. South Korean broadcaster MBC looks at the ramifications for the launc...
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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
Top North Korean general Ri Yong-ho was asked to step down this week, clearing the way for Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un to take over the position of Marshal of the Korean People's Army. South Korean broadcaster MBC reports on what this means for the...
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...
— 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 28, 2011 at 11:01 am
— Mar 8, 2012 at 04:00 pm
Kim Jong-il, was the supreme leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011. He succeeded his father and founder of the DPRK Kim Il-sung following the elder Kim's death in 1994. Kim Jong-il was the general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the National Defence Commission of North Korea, and the supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, the fourth-largest standing army in the world.
In April 2009, North Korea's constitution was amended to refer to him as the "supreme leader". His son Kim Jong-un was promoted to a senior position in the ruling Workers' Party and as his successor. In 2010, he was ranked 31st in Forbes Magazine's List of The World's Most Powerful People. The North Korean government announced his death on 19 December 2011.
Following his death, he was succeeded by his third son Kim Jong-un. At the Fourth Conference of the Worker's Party of Korea and the Fifth Session of the Twelth Supreme People's Assemby, he was proclaimed the Eternal General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and Eternal Chairman of the National Defence Commission in 2012. His birthday is a public holiday in the country.
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