SEOUL, South Korea - Kim Jong Il, the mercurial and enigmatic North Korean leader whose iron rule and nuclear ambitions dominated world security fears for more than a decade, has died. He

When the estranged half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was assassinated in a crowded Malaysian airport last February, he carried in his bag the antidote to the poison that killed him.

July 9, 1994. TOKYO, JULY 9 (SATURDAY) -- North Korean radio reported today that the nation's self-styled "Great Leader," Kim Il Sung, had died Friday of an apparent heart attack, placing in doubt

Scenes of public grieving greet news of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's death at the age of 69, reportedly of a heart attack.

^{Kim Jong Il was the leader of North Korea from 1941 to 2011. He died of a heart attack in 2011 at the age of 70, after a long and controversial rule that shaped the country's politics, economy and culture. Learn about his life, rise to power, family and legacy.}

Kim Il Sung, the North Korean leader since 1945 and the man who led the invasion of the South and beganthe Korean War, died at 2 a.m. on Friday at the age of 82, Pyongyang Radio said today.

It is fair to assume that Kim Jong Il's death at this point in time came as a surprise for the North Korean leadership, too. Note also that the complete sentence says he is the great successor to the revolutionary cause of chuch'e—not sŏn'gun. This is an emphasis on ideology, the realm of the Party. The Military First Policy is Mr Shin and Ms Choi are shown here with Kim Jong-il (centre) The late Mr Kim, who ruled North Korea from his father's death in 1994 until his own in 2011, was said to be a great film buff, and an Kim Jong Il, who succeeded his father in 1994, shifted what So'ng called his "abnormal, tearful love" of Kim Jong Nam to his new children. It was probably around this point that Kim Jong Nam — then seen by most analysts as his father's successor-in-waiting — was pushed aside, almost certainly by his step-mother. North Korea appears to have anticipated such questions: its announcement of Kim's death stated that an autopsy had confirmed the cause of death as a heart attack.

Hong Il-ch'ŏn. Hong Il-chon ( Korean: 홍일천; born 1942) was the first wife of Kim Jong Il. She was the daughter of a soldier who died during the Korean War. In the early 1960s, Kim Il Sung, father of Kim Jong Il, introduced her to his son and handpicked her to marry him in 1966. Her only daughter is named Kim Hye-gyong, born in 1968, and

Kim Bo-hyon (Korean: 김보현; Hanja: 金輔鉉; 3 October 1871 - 2 September 1955) was a farmer from the South Pyongan province. He was the paternal grandfather of the founder of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Kim Il Sung, the great-grandfather of Kim Jong Il, and great-great-grandfather of the current leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un.

Unit 684 was supposed to be a top-secret assassination squad tasked with attacking the residence of North Korea's then leader Kim Il Sung. But the 1968 experiment to create a crack team of would

Strange natural phenomena have been witnessed in North Korea since the death of Kim Jong-il, state news agency KCNA reports.

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By Mark Savage. One of the more surprising facts about Kim Jong-il was his love of cinema. He reportedly owned more than 20,000 videos and DVDs and counted Elizabeth Taylor among his favourite ^{Kim Jong Il, who took power after the death of his father, unveiled his third son as his successor in September 2010, putting the twenty-something Kim Jong Un in high-ranking posts.} jmOeEf.