Has Kim Jong Il Come to His Senses?
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Analysis: North Korea watchers are divided by the Dear Leader's promise to shut down a controversial nuclear reactor.  Is Kim playing straight or still playing games?
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SEOUL -- Trained as a military propagandist in North Korea, Kim Seong Min has turned his skills against the government that once forced his allegiance. From a small radio studio in Seoul, he and a handful of other North Korean defectors deliver daily broadcasts to people who remain behind in the...
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il1s eldest son, Kim Jong Nam, has been living in the Chinese territory for the past three years, according to a news report
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IF there&#39;s one in every crowd, among the throngs of North Koreans wanting to escape Kim Jong-il&#39;s despotism there is now Kim Ki-ho.
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Pyongyang (AsiaNews/Ap) - North Korea&#39;s state-run media dropped the title of &quot;Dear Leader&quot; to glorify the communist nation&#39;s leader Kim Jong Il in recent stories, a Japanese agency that monitors the regime&#39;s media reported on Thursday.
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Analysts are concerned that North Korea may see an opportunity to deepen the wedge between the allies.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has  visited a military unit, the country's official KCNA news  agency reported Wednesday, just hours after reports surfaced  that his portrait had been removed from some public places.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's eldest son has returned to Pyongyang after living overseas and taken up a post at the ruling Workers' Party, possibly signaling a shift in succession plans, a news report said on Monday.
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Is the Defense chief dragging his feet on intelligence?
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North Korea is one of the world's most opaque nations. So how do we decode conflicting reports about Kim Jong Ilâs health and choice of successor?
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&quot;DON&#39;T have a reaction, I&#39;ll leave it to the analysts,&quot; responded US State Department official Adam Ereli to questions about the significance of reports that North Korea&#39;s media had stopped calling Kim Jong-il &quot;Dear Leader&quot;.
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SEOUL -- If a South Korean asks a North Korean how he is doing, the response will probably be ``ilupsopneda," which literally means ``not much." It is the North Korean equivalent of ``I'm fine, thanks."
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North Korea seems to be softening its  rigid personality cult around leader Kim Jong-il, experts on  the reclusive communist state said on Thursday -- although they  were still unsure why the changes had been made.
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North Korean media have dropped most  laudatory references to leader Kim Jong-il, just days after  reports that his portrait had been removed from some public  places, an analyst at Radiopress, a Japanese news agency that  monitors North Korean media, said on Wednesday.
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North Korean media have dropped most laudatory references to leader Kim Jong-il, just days after reports that his portrait had been removed from some public places, an analyst at Radiopress, a Japanese news agency that monitors North Korean media, said on Wednesday.
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Kim Jong-il's eldest son is reported to have returned to N Korea in a move that could affect the succession issue.
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As Pyonyang shuts down its nuclear reactor, a TIME investigation reveals the criminal enterprises that keep Kim Jong Il in power