Before defecting to South Korea in 1991, Ko was a diplomat in Pyongyang who served as an interpreter of French for the country’s founder, Kim Il Sung. Ko cited recent news reports from the ...

The Friday event in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square featured uniformed paramilitary brigades. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, a Russian military song-and-dance ensemble and officials from Beijing ...

But he preferred to maintain the illusion. Had he not been born the son of Kim Il Sung—still North Korea's Great Leader and eternal president—and therefore Son of God, Mr Kim might have been a ...