Tag: kim il sung
A mended plastic bag from North Korea tells the story the...
On April 15, the day North Korea marks the birth of founding leader Kim Il Sung with elaborate state celebrations, I was combing through...
Three words humbled a North Korean checkpoint inspector and got him...
A single claim of membership in the Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Fund was enough to cut short the career of a North Korean...
North Korea cooking oil distribution falls flat as prices exceed reach...
North Korea distributed cooking oil ration vouchers to mark the April 15 birthday of founder Kim Il Sung in 2026, but the state-set price...
Kim Jong Un sidelines his predecessors in sweeping cult of personality...
North Korea has launched an intensified cult of personality campaign around leader Kim Jong Un following the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of...
North Koreans fear tighter crackdowns as Kim announces police system
North Korean people expressed confusion and alarm this week following Kim Jong Un's announcement of plans to establish a police system, with many questioning...
Is Kim Jong Un about to become DPRK president?
North Korea's Supreme People's Assembly convenes March 22 to elect state leadership and revise the constitution. With Kim Jong Un freshly re-elected as Workers'...
Satellite imagery reveals what remains of North Korea-Syria cooperation sites
Nearly two decades after an Israeli airstrike obliterated a suspected North Korean-built reactor in the Syrian desert, new satellite imagery of the Al-Kibar site...
Kim Jong Un’s ideology supplants founding doctrine after ninth party congress
North Korea's state media has stopped referencing "Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism," the ideological framework underpinning the Kim dynasty for decades, following the ninth congress of the Workers'...
North Korea hands out Russian flour for Kim Jong Il’s birthday
North Korean authorities distributed wheat flour imported from Russia to government agencies, army units, mines and other state institutions in Hamhung, South Hamgyong province...
Red neckties create classroom hierarchy as N. Korean parents bribe for...
Parents at some elementary schools in North Hamgyong province are unhappy about the selection of the first batch of students to join the Korean...
