The funeral of Kim Jong-il made for a big story internationally, but in true Autoblog fashion, we were just as interested in the classic cars that figured prominently in the procession.

Kim Jong Il. A centenarian, Kim Yong Ju outlived his brother as well as former leader Kim Jong Il, but he live the second half of his life mainly in obscurity, often in a remote part of the ...

Ko bears a striking resemblance to her sister, Ko Yong Hui, who was one of Kim Jong Il's wives and the mother of Kim Jong Un, the third-generation leader of North Korea. And she had a particularly ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has now visited China twice in 2010, an unusual move for this reclusive and paranoid leader and a potential hazard for a small, proud country that has always been ...

Kim Jong Un is believed to have been born in the early 1980s to Kim Jong Il and Ko Yong Hui. His birth year remains unconfirmed by the North Korean government, which is a contrast to how his ...

Kim Jong Chol is Kim Jong Un's older brother who was supposedly going to succeed Kim Jong Il until he was rejected in favor of Kim Jong Un. Kim Jong Il reportedly rejected Kim Jong Chol from ...

Why would Kim Jong-il - then only two years into his leadership of North Korea - have needed a fake passport? Fresh evidence emerged this week that the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and his ...

South Korean intel published by the Yonhap News Agency suggests 3,000 North Korean troops are already in Russia.

As Kim Jong-un was being prepared for power, they even began using the term "Paektu Bloodline" to help legitimise his rule. Paektu is the sacred and mythologised mountain where Kim Il-sung is said ...

Both Kim Jong Un's father, Kim Jong Il, and his grandfather, Kim Il Sung, supported the ideal of a unified Korean peninsula. Kim Jong Un's dismantling of not only their ideological framework but ...

The spy agency further reported that North Korea has stopped using its “juche” calendar—a year-numbering system honouring its late founder Kim Il-sung ... by Kim Yo-jong, the influential ...

South Korean official had earlier said the country was considering sending lethal weapons to Kyiv if the North is involved in the Ukraine war.