Ri Jong-yol (Korean: 리정렬; born 1998) is a North Korean defector and child prodigy of mathematics. After winning silver at the 2016 International Mathematical...

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information about North Korea. The personality cult around Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il was also absent; for example there were no portraits of the Kim leaders...

were women. In 2018, the numbers had been dramatically dropping since Kim Jong-Un took power in 2011, trending towards less than a thousand per year, down...

plant bombs on KAL 858. She was told that the order came directly from Kim Jong Il, and was handwritten. She was told that if she were successful, she would...

close friend and the youngest daughter of a large construction company. Son Jong-hak as Kim Seung-do A longtime employee and managing director of Hotel Nakwon...

Citing the killings of Kim Jong-nam and Jang Song-thaek, Thae believes that he is likely a target for assassination by Kim Jong Un due to his defection and...

from the Assembly and his standing deteriorated; though he had been Kim Jong Il's teacher at Kim Il Sung University, Kim now spoke to him only to criticize...

considers Kim Jong Un to be a "cruel" leader. Park is outspoken against tourism to North Korea, as visitors are encouraged to bow to statues of Kim Jong Il and...

parasites were Ascaris lumbricoides worms. Oh was treated by surgeon Lee Guk-jong at the Ajou University Hospital's intensive care. Oh was later transferred...

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2020 he was elected as a member of the South Korean National Assembly. Ri Jong-yol, then 18-years old, defected at Hong Kong when participating the International...

release, Lee wrote several letters of protest to North Korean leader Kim Jong-il about her cruel treatment in the camp but never received a response and...

again between March 24, 1955, and September 2, 1955. He often assisted Ho Jong-suk with her work, as she was frequently ill around this time. He also occasionally...

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mixture of feelings at the news of Kim Jong-il's death on 17 December 2011. "When I first heard about Kim Jong-il's death I felt exultation, but there...

we would eat rats and earthworms to survive." There was an order by Kim Jong-il that those in the prison with relatives in Japan had to be released after...

Chun-yong Kim Yol Yi Hong-yol Kim Chan Yun Chung-u Choe Won-tack Chong Song-on YiSik Kim Hwang-il Kim Ki-ju Yi Chong-man Pak Yong-song Ri Yu-min Pak Chang-ok...

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political party was significant due to power being moved from Kim Jong Il to his successor Kim Jong Un. Secondly, a provisional government formed outside North...

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Korean Government departments. Kim Jong Il liked the poem so much it was redistributed in North Korea in 1999. Kim Jong Il's favoritism gained Jang the class...

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story of how she was trained as a spy and assigned a mission given by Kim Jong-il to blow up a South Korean airliner. The book details her early training...

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He also sharply criticized the rule of North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un. Cho did not run for reelection and vacated his seat upon the dissolution...

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They contract him to bring a young woman, In-ok (Kim Gyu-ri), from Pyongyang to her lover (Kim Jong-soo), a high-ranking North Korean official who recently...