The death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il earlier this month has sparked a run on enamelled lapel pins bearing his image in the Chinese border city of Dandong, street vendors said Friday. But the face of the isolated country's new leader, Kim's young son Jong-Un, is nowhere to be found on the vendors' tables, also laden with cheaply made souvenir fridge magnets, Buddhas, bracelets, cups and n...

North Korea’s powerful National Defense Commission issued a hard-line statement on Friday, threatening not to deal with South Korea‘s Lee Myung-bak government and ruling out any policy changes. The statement, issued just after the North’s new leader Kim Jong-un took power from his deceased father Kim Jong-il during the communist nation‘s mourning period, seems to represent Pyongyang’s future pol...

North Korea began the new era of young and untested leader Kim Jong-un on Thursday with a massive memorial service for the late Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang. An estimated 100,000 soldiers and civilians of Pyongyang gathered at Kim Il-sung Square where the late Kim’s successor and top party and military officials stood firm on the balcony of the Grand People’s Study House, North Korea’s state TV show...

The power of Jang Song-thaek, late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s brother-in-law, has been overestimated, an expert said Thursday, countering the widespread assumptions over his role as a key regent facilitating the hereditary power succession. Cheong Seong-chang, senior fellow at Sejong Institute, also said that successor Jong-un’s leadership capabilities have been underestimated in the medi...

North Korea's state news agency has transmitted altered photographs of the funeral procession for the late leader Kim Jong-il held in Pyongyang on Wednesday, New York Times reported. The New York Times and the digital forensics expert Hany Farid of Dartmouth College analyzed a photograph distributed by the state news agency and transmitted by the European Pressphoto Agency. “(The photo) was alt...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) _ Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans packed the main plaza in Pyongyang as the nation's next leader looked on from a balcony at a solemn memorial for late leader Kim Jong Il Thursday. Kim Jong Un stood watching from a balcony at the Grand People's Study House overlooking Kim Il Sung Square, flanked by the top party and military officials. It was a cold, gray day ...

Pyongyang citizens wail on snowy streets of capital over death of Kim Jong-il North Korea held a mass funeral for late leader Kim Jong-il on Wednesday, with his third son and successor Kim Jong-un escorting his father’s hearse through snowy Pyongyang. The North’s state-run Korean Central TV aired the funeral at 2 p.m., saying that it was broadcast live. South Korean media speculated that the fo...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- North Korea carried out a meticulously choreographed funeral for late leader Kim Jong Il on Wednesday and affirmed that the country was now in the ``warm care'' of his young son, extending the Kim family's hold on power to a third generation. Footage broadcast on North Korea's state television showed Kim's youngest son and successor Kim Jong Un walking next to his ...