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Kim Jong-il

December 2022

  • Gomi (left) and Songgang are unveiled at a park in Gwangju, South Korea

    Kim Jong-un dogs end up at South Korean zoo after care costs row

    Moon Jae-in gave up hunting dogs claiming government refused to cover food and veterinary bills

March 2022

  • Photo by Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a meeting of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea on Jan. 19, 2022.

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: Two minutes to midnight: did the US miss its chance to stop North Korea’s nuclear programme? – podcast

    This week, from 2018: An unprecedented US mission to Pyongyang in 1999 promised to defuse Kim’s nuclear threat. But it all came to nothing – and then the hawks took power

January 2022

  • A woman walks past a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test

    No ‘fire and fury’ yet, but a game of nuclear brinkmanship with North Korea looms

    Analysis: Kim Jong-un’s pressure on Joe Biden has so far elicited only fresh sanctions. Pyongyang has now signalled it may resume nuclear and ICBM tests

December 2021

  • North Koreans reportedly banned from laughing and drinking alcohol for 11 days during mourning period for former leader

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    North Korea 'bans laughing' during mourning for anniversary of Kim Jong-il's death – video

  • People pay their respects at a mosaic depicting former leaders to mark the 10-year anniversary of the death of Kim Jong-il on 17 December.

    The Observer view on a decade of North Korea under Kim Jong-un

  • Kim Jong-un on a snow-covered Mount Paektu at sunrise in Ryanggang province

    From the agencies
    Rollercoasters, horses and weight loss: 10 years of Kim Jong-un image politics

  • kim jong un

    From ‘tempestuous’ child to little rocket man: 10 years of Kim Jong-un

October 2021

  • Simon Tisdall

    From Roys to royals, succession battles are raging the world over

    Simon Tisdall
    For edge-of-the-seat drama, the TV dynasty can’t match the power struggles of leading families in Japan, Saudi Arabia … and Britain

February 2021

  • Mitsuko Minakawa, 77, with her wedding photograph; the couple moved to North Korea in 1960

    ‘My mother begged me not to go’: the Japanese women who married Koreans – and never saw their family again

    Mitsuko left Japan in 1960 for a new life in North Korea. Once there, she realised she – and hundreds of others like her – could never go back

April 2019

  • A group of women wearing traditional dress leave after paying their respects before the statues of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il

    Day of the Sun: North Korea marks Kim Il-sung’s birthday

    Tens of thousands of North Koreans have turned out to pay tribute to their leaders. The most important day in the country’s ritual calendar, 15 April is called the Day of the Sun, the anniversary of the 1912 birth of the country’s founder, Kim Il-sung

December 2018

  • North Korea marks seventh anniversary of death of former leader Kim Jong-il – video

    North Korea condemns US sanctions while marking the seven-year anniversary of the death of leader former Kim Jong-il

November 2018

  • Pyongyang calling: we spent a week in North Korea - video

  • Pyongyang park

    Fake Adidas and Hello Kitty: a taste of consumerism for North Korea’s elite

June 2018

  • A tour of North Korea's answer to Disneyland – video

    On a rare press trip to Pyongyang we were presented with a night at the bustling Kaeson Youth Park, where residents are marshalled in line by military personnel for a dose of state-sanctioned fun. But while the UN warns of food scarcity in the rest of the country, is this just a welcome distraction for the privileged few?
  • North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US president Donald Trump shake hands at the conclusion of their meeting in Singapore.

    Kim Jong-un: The story of the boy dictator who bested the US president

    The young ruler took a radically different path to his father, one that earned him the opportunity to outsmart Donald Trump

  • Life inside North Korea: the power of Juche explained - video

    On a rare press trip to Pyongyang, we were given a guided tour of the Juche Tower

April 2018

  • Choi Eun-hee

    Choi Eun-hee, actor once abducted by North Korea, dies

  • North Korea's claimed test launch of a Hwasong-12 intermediate range missile

    The Audio Long Read
    Two minutes to midnight: did the US miss its chance to stop North Korea’s nuclear programme? – podcast

March 2018

  • long read north korea composite: bill clinton, kim jong-un, donald trump, kim jong-il

    The long read
    Two minutes to midnight: did the US miss its chance to stop North Korea’s nuclear programme?

  • Did North Korea's Kim Jong-un ride in this mystery train to China? - video report

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