Almost all homes and public offices in North Korea must have portraits of Kim’s father Kim Jong Il and grandfather Kim Il Sung but featuring that of the younger Kim hadn’t yet been a ...

Kim Il-sung ruined the economy, hoarded power and saw his countrymen slaughtered, as Fyodor Tertitskiy’s Accidental Tyrant reveals ...

Taken alone, each portrait could look like smiling propaganda ... A couple poses in the middle of Kim Il Sung Square, which can fit an estimated 100,000 people for national military parades.

1, 2023, shows a mosaic portrait featuring North Korean Kim ... the birthday of late national founder Kim Il-sung. The unification ministry said North Korea held such a ritual on Jan. 8, Kim ...