Kim Jong-il Dies

North Korean officials have posthumously honoured a 14-year-old girl who drowned in a flood while trying to save portraits of leaders Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il, RIA Novosti reported. Han Hyon-Gyong, a schoolgirl from the eastern province of South Hamkyong, died on June 11 as she tried to take the portraits out of her flooded home, the Rodong Sinm...

He's been cursed in the street, appeared in a movie and perfected the wave of North Korea's "Dear Leader". Now Kim Jong-Il's leading look-alike feels that part of himself died along with the late ruler.

North Korea has invited Japanese woman magician Tenko Hikita to attend the planned December 28 funeral for its leader Kim Jong Il who died last weekend, her manager claimed today. Ms Hikita, who has performed several magic shows in North Korea, received the invitation over the phone and via e-mail from one of Kim's relatives.

Kim Jong-il, the enigmatic North Korean leader, died on a train at 8:30 am Saturday in his country. Forty-eight hours later, officials in South Korea still did not know anything about it - to say nothing of Washington, where the State Department acknowledged "press reports" of Mr. Kim's death well after North Korean state media had already announce...

North Korea Monday described Kim Jong-Un as the "great successor" after announcing the death of his father, leader Kim Jong-Il, from a heart attack at the age of 69.

Kim Jong-Il was the hereditary and eccentric ruler of North Korea, the country founded by his father, Kim Il-sung, from the time his father died in 1994 until his own death, which was announced by state media on Dec. 19, 2011. The two Kims have been the only leaders their country has known.

Kim Jong-il, the reclusive dictator who kept North Korea at the edge of starvation and collapse, banished to gulags citizens deemed disloyal and turned the country into a nuclear weapons state, died Saturday morning, according to an announcement by the North's official news media on Monday. He was reported to be 69, and had been in ill health since...

North Korean officials have posthumously honoured a 14-year-old girl who drowned in a flood while trying to save portraits of leaders Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il, RIA Novosti reported. Han Hyon-Gyong, a schoolgirl from the eastern province of South Hamkyong, died on June 11 as she tried to take the portraits out of her flooded home, the Rodong Sinm...

He's been cursed in the street, appeared in a movie and perfected the wave of North Korea's "Dear Leader". Now Kim Jong-Il's leading look-alike feels that part of himself died along with the late ruler.

North Korea has invited Japanese woman magician Tenko Hikita to attend the planned December 28 funeral for its leader Kim Jong Il who died last weekend, her manager claimed today. Ms Hikita, who has performed several magic shows in North Korea, received the invitation over the phone and via e-mail from one of Kim's relatives.

Kim Jong-il, the enigmatic North Korean leader, died on a train at 8:30 am Saturday in his country. Forty-eight hours later, officials in South Korea still did not know anything about it - to say nothing of Washington, where the State Department acknowledged "press reports" of Mr. Kim's death well after North Korean state media had already announce...

North Korea Monday described Kim Jong-Un as the "great successor" after announcing the death of his father, leader Kim Jong-Il, from a heart attack at the age of 69.

Kim Jong-Il was the hereditary and eccentric ruler of North Korea, the country founded by his father, Kim Il-sung, from the time his father died in 1994 until his own death, which was announced by state media on Dec. 19, 2011. The two Kims have been the only leaders their country has known.

Kim Jong-il, the reclusive dictator who kept North Korea at the edge of starvation and collapse, banished to gulags citizens deemed disloyal and turned the country into a nuclear weapons state, died Saturday morning, according to an announcement by the North's official news media on Monday. He was reported to be 69, and had been in ill health since...