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The history of North Korea began with the end of World War II in 1945. The surrender of Japan led to the division of Korea at the 38th parallel, with the Soviet Union occupying the north, and the United States occupying the south.
The Kim family, officially the Mount Paektu bloodline (Korean: 백두혈통), named for Paektu Mountain, in the ideological discourse of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), and often referred to as the Kim dynasty after the Cold War's end, is a three-generation lineage of North Korean leadership, descending from the country's founder and first leader, Kim Il Sung.
15 October – North Korea blows up sections of the Gyeongui and Donghae roads leading to the DMZ. [33] 17 October – North Korea revises its constitution to formally designate South Korea as a "hostile" state. [34] 24 October – A balloon from North Korea carrying rubbish lands on the Presidential Residence of South Korea in Yongsan, Seoul. [35]
Every North Korean is given a lapel badge when they turn 12 bearing the image of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and it must be worn whenever they leave home. Portraits of a dynasty: North Korea's ...
The Sister offers a profile of the enigmatic Kim Yo Jong (b. 1987), [1] [4] sister to Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea. Both siblings are the third generation in the Kim dynasty, [1] preceded by their father Kim Jong-Il, and their grandfather and founder of North Korea, Kim Il-Sung.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Kim Ki Nam, a North Korean propaganda chief who helped build personality cults around the country’s three dynastic leaders, has died at 94, the North’s state media ...
17 September. North Korea (DPRK) and South Korea (ROK) join the United Nations (UN). 26 December. The end of the Cold War as the Soviet Union collapses and North Korea loses military and economic aid. 1992 11 August. South Korea's first satellite, KITSAT-1, a.k.a. 우리별 (Uri Byol) is successfully launched from Guiana Space Centre. 24 August.
The footage shows North Koreans living in fear and squalor (even forced to collect their own feces to turn over to the government for fertilizer), children marching out of school to watch public ...