The gaggle of pretty young women jumping up and down at a state reception, screaming out praises of Kim Jong Il, didn't really ... even by hanging his portrait askew—ended in prison camps ...
Another packed a portrait of Kim Jong-il (the father of the current leader) wrapped in a red silk scarf in her bag." This kind of idolisation of a leader is alien to South Korea's younger ...
He paints a bleak portrait of his village ... Mr Jang makes no claim to speak from within Kim Jong Il's closest circle. But as a poet laureate, on the inside of the Kims' mythmaking machine ...
Kim Jong-il was born in 1941 in the Siberian village of Vyatskoye. He would follow his father Kim Il-sung as the second ...
1, 2023, shows a mosaic portrait featuring North Korean Kim ... to take an oath of allegiance on Feb. 16, the birthday of Kim Jong-il, the late father of the incumbent leader, and April 15 ...
North Korean media ignored Kim Jong Un's birthday, focusing instead on his factory visit, amid efforts to enhance his cult of personality.
"There is a possibility that North Korea could expand the use of a pin featuring Kim Jong-un's solitary portrait and designate ... the years that symbolizes Kim Il-sung. Under this calendar ...