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 ...
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‘Don’t worry. I am still in charge’
The idea of a sudden change in the North was first raised in 1994 — shortly after the death of Kim Il Sung in the post-Cold .
State-run Korean Central Television has reported that Kim delivered a speech at Kim Il Sung University of Politics in Pyongyang on Monday. Future military officers are educated at the school.
and grandfather Kim Il-sung. The visit coincided with the Day of the Shining Star, a national holiday in North Korea on February 16, Kim Jong-il’s birthday. According to the Korean Central News ...