News about Kim Il-Sung

The oppressive leader of the Hermit Kingdom was snapped attending a slew of dramatic events yesterday in the North Korean capital to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the day his grandfather Kim Il Sung founded the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). His beaming daughter in tow, Kim first visited the Central Cadres Training School of the WPK in the Kumsusan area of the capital where the pair were treated to a banquet and a stunning light show. Hours later they piled into a luxury Russian Aurus limousine - one of many gifts bestowed upon Kim by Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this year - and were shuttled to Kim Il Sung Square in the heart of Pyongyang. Ju Ae, who many analysts believe is being groomed as his heiress and future leader of North Korea , was seen accompanying her father as they were greeted by thousands of dancers from student and youth groups.

A China-based tour operator confirmed they will be the first to take visitors over the border and into North Korea later this year. Beijing 's Koryo Tours said on their website: 'We have received confirmation from our local partner that tourism to Samjiyon and potentially the rest of the country will officially resume in December 2024.' The secretive state was the first in the world to seal itself in early 2020 as a response to the spread of Covid-19. As other nations slowly began to welcome international visitors, North Korea only welcomed a select few - and they were usually travelling diplomats or the odd tourist group from Russia.

Kim Jong-un has wiped his hated step-grandmother's mansion off the map, amid speculation that he's too broke to maintain her royal residence. After the death of the dictator's grandmother, his grandfather and predecessor, Kim Il-sung, remarried and started another family. But relations between the rival royal lines were fraught, with the new wife, Kim Song-ae, accused of trying to install her own son on the throne. So Kim Jong-il, the current leader's father, had her placed under house arrest, and her son, Kim Pyong-il, was sent into exile as a career diplomat.

Russian man Yuri Frolov recalled the summers he spent in 2015 and 2016 at the Songdowon International Children's Camp in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Yuri, who is now 25, said his interest in North Korea first piqued as a child after he saw a documentary about the communist dictatorship. He desperately wanted to see the country for himself, discovering the camp in Wonsan, North Korea, after doing some research online.

Anthony Middleton took the Pyongyang Express from China to Pyongyang. Speaking to MailOnline Travel, he shared what he saw from the window and how comfortable it was. He also recalled his tour around the North Korean capital, which he said was 'surreal'. Read on for more...

The first Russian tourists allowed to visit North Korea since the pandemic began have referred to their trip as'surreal.' Among 100 Russians who registered for a new tour of the country, Ilya Voskresensky and Elena Bychokva were among a group of 100 Russians on a new tour of the region - where tours are heavily restricted. Travel blogger Voskresensky from St Petersburg told CNN, 'It's like stepping back in time.' It's reminiscent of the tales my grandparents told me about life in the Soviet Union - empty streets, a lack of advertisements.'

American Jesse Romberg ordered the book on the "common image" of the US in North Korea, with the guide advising that Korea'didn't do any harm to America.' The tour also pointed out that 'America invaded our world.' Nonetheless, they are in the southern part of our world. And yet, they're still advocating kind of hostile policies against our country and sanctions against our countries,' he continued. From the viewpoint of the North Korean regime, there is just one Korea - and the United States is seen as 'occupying' the southern portion, which has not widely recognized as a sovereign nation of South Korea.

EXCLUSIVE: A North Korean defector has shared how she fell out of her country twice only to become a slave in China before escaping to the United States. When her uncle died of starvation in front of her and her father became ill, Jihyun Park, a child of North Korea, told MailOnline how her father's final wish was for her to save her younger brother and 'leave this world'. Ms Park, a widow, on February 18, 1998, she and her brother set off on her first attempt to flee North Korea. They were targeted by North Korean soldiers who opened fire halfway through their journey.

During the Supreme People's Assemble in Pyongyang on Tuesday, Kim Il Sung and his successor Kim Jong Il stood behind him, demanding a 'exponential increase' in nuclear weapons. Kim Il Sung ruled with an iron fist from 1948 to 1994, with his son Kim Jong Il assuming control of his father's death. He carried forward the family's tradition of brutally oppressing the country's people with violence, executions, and purges, following his father's example. Jong Il himself died in 2011 after a suspected heart attack, and his youngest son Kim Jong Un was named the 'great successor' by state media.

According to Pyongyang, North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency, more than 120,000 protesters attended Sunday's mass marches in the country's capital, Pyongyang. A stadium full of people erupted in a salute while marching with streamers and banners depicting nuclear missile launches, according to shocking photos. Many thousands of people were wearing Covid-19 face masks and brandishing signs that read: "Let's eliminate US imperialist invaders everywhere," North's Rodong Sinmun newspaper reported, "the entire US mainland is within our striking range." Though the 1950-53 conflict was triggered by a North Korean surprise attack, protesters in Pyongyang praised their government's version of events and accused the US of inciting the conflict and leaving Koreans with 'wounds' that will never be fully resolved.

Tucker Carlson mocked Fox News for apologizing after calling Joe Biden a "wannabe tyrant" after insisting that the president had dictatorial tendencies. Carlson said calling Biden a "wannabe tyrant" was inaccurate because it was true. Carlson wrote, "Lies don't appear to bother anyone anymore." 'If some cable news producer had called Joe Biden a genius or accused him of being secretly Sudanese, would anyone be yelling about it?Would Fox News have apologized for it? Probably not. But calling Joe Biden a wannabe tyrant was stinging,' he stung.'

According to a South Korean survey, North Korea has committed horrific human rights abuses, including murdering children and pregnant women, performing animal experiments, and forcibly sterilizing disabled people. According to the South's Ministry of Unification states, the pariah state has sentenced citizens to death for being gay, for their faith, and for attempting to flee the region. The regime also coerced nurses to draft "a list of dwarfs" and perform hysterectomies on a woman with dwarfism, as well as human experiments. The extensive 450-page paper explores egregious human rights abuses in North Korea, including the right to life and liberty, as well as freedom from slavery, torture, and other cruel treatment. It's based on derogatory testimony from over 500 North Koreans who migrated from their homeland and was collected from 2017 to 2022. At a camp, a North Korean soldier emerges from behind barbed wire at a camp. Right: At the Korean War exhibition in Seoul, a South Korean soldier, left, experiences what it is like to be held in a North Korean cell. Inset: Inmates in a North Korean prison camp.

Kim almost never appears in public with his children, so experts believe Ju-ae has now joined him at no fewer than five times in the past three months. She was pictured with Dad at a military banquet last week, just the day before the military parade, where she had pride of place with the leader and his mother, Ri Sol-ju. And although North Korea's state media has never revealed Ju-ae's name, the evolving terms that have referred to her - words that have a lot of importance in North Korea's tumultuous hierarchy - are cited as further proof that she has been selected to replace her father. It was only a few weeks ago that it was labelled 'beloved daughter,' but only recently it was respected daughter, an expression normally reserved for Supreme Leaders and their spouses.

Kim Jong Un's wife was seen sporting a missile necklace ahead of a big military parade, as the couple's daughter took center stage during a display featuring a record number of nuclear missiles. Kim Ju Ae, the North Korean dictator's daughter, who is expected to be nine to ten years old, spent closely with her father as he shook hands with senior officials yesterday. While wearing the black coat and fedora combination favoured by his grandfather and North Korea's founding leader Kim Il Sung, he was also seen with his wife Ri Sol Ju. Kim oversaw the parade, which featured nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missiles, including what analysts said was perhaps a new solid-fueled ICBM.

Kim Ju Ae, Kim's daughter, who is likely to be 9 or ten years old, stood close to her father as he shook senior officials' hands and sat at a table next to him. According to analysts, Kim's decision to bring his daughter to public events linked to his military shows that he has no intention to sell his nuclear weapons voluntarily, which he reportedly sees as the only guarantee of his survival and the extension of his family's dynastic reign.