Kim Il

19 Jul 2012

The rich-poor gap divides North Koreans between people in the capital of Pyongyang and those in the countryside more clearly now than ever.

9:42PM

Kim granted official title on eve of feared missile test

12 Apr 2012

Kim Jong-un was granted his official job title yesterday when a party congress named him first secretary of the North Korean Workers' Party, sealing his succession at the head of the nation's...

12:30PM

Talking points

15 Feb 2012

Our editors will be looking ahead today to these developing stories ...

North Koreans mark 'Day of the Shining Star'

7:28AM

Talking points

7 Jan 2012

Our editors will be looking ahead today to these developing stories ...

All quiet in North Korea for Kim's big day

4:47AM

Is Kim's journey a search for tips on financial reform?

24 May 2011

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's trip to the eastern city of Yangzhou has led to speculation that he might be meeting former president Jiang Zemin and trying to learn from China's experience of...

10:43AM

Reality, sans politics

21 Aug 2009

My son's history teacher was telling me about a visit last month to the demilitarised zone between the two Koreas. We had just ended 90 minutes of discussion about higher-secondary-school subject...

2:38PM

Opinion

Workers pay the price for our bargains

5:20AM

Howard Winn

Barry Cheung makes waves in Moscow

3:47AM

Reclusive leader breaks cover

All eyes are on Kim Jong-il's health as he makes unscheduled appearance for Roh visit

6:51AM

Vanishing Kim likely holed up in hermit's bunker

Pyongyangology - the study of North Korea's hermit leadership - is sometimes likened to looking down the wrong end of a telescope. Certainly, it is a most inexact of crafts.

1:47AM

Really radical thinking

The western press paints North Korean leader Kim Jong-il as a nutcase, playboy and ruthless dictator who fits 'axis of evil' stereotypes. But does anybody know anything about him and what he...

9:19PM

Poverty echoes China's hard times

Nearly one million Chinese died or were wounded in saving the North Korea of Kim Il-sung from defeat in the 1950s, but most Chinese today regard the country with a mixture of humour and ridicule...

5:51AM

North Korean glides in for holiday on ice

IT is a long way from the Kim Il-sung Stadium in communist North Korea to an ice rink in Taikoo Shing. But Kim Chol-sung completed the journey yesterday.

7:14AM

Troops wear Kim Jong-il

TOKYO: North Korean troops are replacing badges of their deceased 'Great Leader' Kim Il-sung on their uniforms in favour of those sporting his son and apparent heir Kim Jong-il, Japan's Kyodo news...

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