A new book reveals that the leader's maternal grandfather was a Japan-based smuggler who had to flee to North Korea to escape ...

Kim Jong Il is credited with rewriting the main rules behind North Korea's one-family ideology, called the Ten Principles, after being tapped as his father's successor.

Kim Jong Il, right, and Konstantin Pulikovsky, who was the Russian President's representative in the Far East, are seen in the Russian city of Vladivostok on July 26, 2001.

Citizens visit the bronze statues of their late leaders Kim Il Sung, left, and Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, North Korea Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, on the occasion of 10th anniversary of ...

In 2011, Yomiuri Shimbun reported that on May 12, 1991 (the same year Kim Jong Il was elevated to supreme commander of the Korean People's Army), Kim Jong Un and another boy thought to be his ...

SEOUL, South Korea – Kim Jong Il, North Korea's longtime leader, has died at 69 of a heart attack, state TV reported on Monday in a "special broadcast." State media reported that Kim suffered ...

Separately, Reuters reported that in the late 1990s, Kim Jong Il and then-teenaged Kim Jong Un used fraudulent Brazilian passports. Both passports carried the stamp "Embassy of Brazil in Prague ...

Kim Jong-il’s youngest son, Kim Jung-un, is expected to become North Korea’s new leader. But it’s unclear if his ascendancy will bring about any real changes.

Kim Jong Il: 10 weird facts, propaganda AFP/Getty Images 7. Fashion icon. Standing at at 5-foot-3, Kim was a curious figure with his bouffant hairdo, platform shoes and collection of jumpsuits.

Dec. 19, 2011— -- intro: Kim Jong Il, North Korea's supreme leader who ruled over one of the poorest countries in the world, died Saturday of heart failure. The 69-year-old was known for ...

Kim Jong-Il just sent him a full sized train, packed with explosives, to blow up for the scene. Kind of telling him, ‘If you need another one, let me know.’ ...