SEOUL, South Korea - Kim Jong Il, the mercurial and enigmatic North Korean leader whose iron rule and nuclear ambitions dominated world security fears for more than a decade, has died. He was 69.

North Korea said it has repaired its damaged second naval destroyer and launched the ship into the water in the presence of ...

Kim said the 1968 attack was made at the order of North Korea founder and then-leader Kim Il Sung, the grandfather of current ruler Kim Jong Un. Kim Il Sung died of heart attack in 1994 ...

North Korea initially promoted itself as more ... He led a delegation to South Korea when former President Kim Dae-jung died in 2009 and met with then South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.

1994 - Founding President Kim Il-sung dies, succeeded by his son Kim Jong-il. Mid-1990s - Flooding exacerbates North Korea's economic crisis, damaging crops and infrastructure and led to ...

Kim Ki Nam had been receiving treatment since 2022 and died on ... He also led a North Korean delegation to South Korea in 2009 to attend the funeral of Seoul's former president, Kim Dae-jung.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Kim Shin-jo, a prominent ex-North Korean commando who resettled in South Korea as a pastor after his daring mission to assassinate then South Korean President Park ...

1994 - Founding President Kim Il-sung dies, succeeded by his son Kim Jong-il. Mid-1990s - Flooding exacerbates North Korea's economic crisis, damaging crops and infrastructure and led to ...