Kim Jong-il was born in 1941 in the Siberian village of Vyatskoye. He would follow his father Kim Il-sung as the second ...

The year was 1978 and a freighter was secretly heading from Hong Kong across the East China Sea to Pyongyang, the North Korean capital.

It must be difficult to have been the heavenly leaders of North Korea for all time. So what does one unwind as an eternal leader? From brutal executions, opening zoos, to hiring foreign NBA stars, ...

During the Korean War (1950–1953), similar incidents occurred as well, but one notable event failed to attract nearly as much ...

Since the time when North Korea was established, all three of its leaders Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il ... Last year, state television showed Kim Jong Un in a white train car touching corn leaves ...

The emergency landing of Jeju Air Flight 2216 looked highly skilled, experts say, but all except two of the 181 people on board were killed when the Boeing 737-800 hit a wall and burst into flames.

said former pilot Kim Kwang-il. A "belly landing" is an emergency procedure for precisely this scenario and planes are designed to withstand this in emergencies, Kim, also a professor at Silla ...

(If Americans weren't paying much attention, it may be because just as Carter was emerging from the North, O.J. Simpson was in a live-on-TV, slow-motion car ... Kim was dead. His son, Kim Jong Il ...