Kim Jong Il News

South Korean Navy sailors are on board a patrol boat at a naval base in Incheon, South Korea, Nov.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy's envoy for North Korea arrived in Pyongyang on Monday carrying a ''special message'' for North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has visited a new power plant and a farm in the south of the country, official media reported Saturday.

Will the real Kim Jong Il please stand up? There is a reality inside North Korea, and there is another outside.

North Korea dictator Kim Jong Il is said to have more than one look-alike, many believe he has several, but a report from Fox News claims that "Critics question whether an August 2009 photo of Kim Jong Il is really him." He is seated with former President Bill Clinton of the United States.

Image released by official Korean Central News Agency Oct. 30 shows Kim Jong Il inspecting a power station.

Japanese government officials have determined that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il oversaw the Pyongyang agency responsible for abducting Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s, despite Kim's claim he was not involved, sources said.

DC buzz goes abroad and finds former French president, Jacques Chirac, set to "stand trial on corruption charges dating to his time years ago as mayor of Paris," the New York Times reports.

Will the real Kim Jong-il please stand up? In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo, former U.S.... In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, seated left, meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, seated right, in ...

Former South Korean spy chief Lee Hu-rak, who brokered the signing of a historic 1972 peace document with North Korea following a secret trip to Pyongyang, died Saturday.

A number of analysts are convinced that photos released of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il are not really of the dear leader a ' but rather a strikingly good look-alike. Observers say the communist country's leader is too sick to make appearances, including August's meeting with former President Bill Clinton, the Christian Science Monitor reports.

Chinese President Hu Jintao invited North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to visit China during a meeting with a delegation from the Workers' Party of Korea, North Korea's official media said Thursday.

In this week's issue, Barbara Demick writes about Song Hee-suk , a North Korean woman who struggled through the famine of the nineteen-nineties and defected to South Korea in 2002.

U.S. and North Korean officials wrapped up unofficial talks Tuesday with other northeast Asian countries about regional security, but no major breakthroughs were expected.

COMMENT: North Korea: liability for Beijing? -Jonathan D Pollack Beijing's return on investment with North Korea remains remarkably sparse to date, but senior leaders seem unprepared to contemplate alternative courses of action, at least for the present.

In 1866, the S.S. General Sherman, an ironclad schooner recommissioned for use in the China trade after service for the Union as a blockade runner in the Civil War, came sailing across the Yellow Sea and entered the mouth of the Taedong River on the west coast of the Korean peninsula.

Daniel Chun peers out of the window of the Air Koryo turboprop from China as it touches down outside Pyongyang, his former home.

Forget the hairdos and the funny suits. Kim Jong Il is no madman. We don't have access to his shrink, of course, but there's absolutely no evidence to suggest that he's irrational.

Media reports say both Koreas held a secret meeting in Singapore on an inter-Korean summit, but the South Korean government remains mum.