Last modified on Tue 5 Sep 2017 03.17 EDT. 2. North Korean authorities have declared a 10 day period of mourning to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Kim Il-sung today. According to NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with filmmaker Ryan White about his documentary Assassins, which explores the killing of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's half brother at a Malaysian airport. Kim Jong-nam was the older half-brother of North Korea's authoritarian ruler, Kim Jong-un. He was once seen as a future leader of the isolated country, but when his father Kim Jong-il died, was Key points North Korean state television announced that leader Kim Jong-il has died at the age of 69. He suffered a heart attack on board a train outside the capital, Pyongyang, on Kim Dae-jung, who survived assassination attempts as a pro-democracy activist to become South Korean president and a Nobel laureate who thawed relations with the North, has died aged 85. Hospital SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has marked the 12th anniversary of the death of his father and predecessor Kim Jong-il by visiting a mausoleum where the father's body The Anatomy of the "Death" of Kim 11 Sung by Barry K. Gills "The fate of Kim I1 Sung remained a mystery tonight after a day of "The whole people are thankful for upholding Kim Jong I1 (Kim I1 Sung's son) as our Great Leader." Monday, 17 November 1986, 6:00A.M." A loudspeaker program repeated that President Kim I1 Sung had died, but insisted People in Pyongyang bowing before portraits of North Korea's previous leaders Kim Il-sung, the nation's founder, and Kim Jong-il to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of Kim Jong-il on Dec Kim Jong Il, the second of the Kim family dynasty, ruled North Korea for 17 years until his death on Dec. 17, 2011. State media at the time did not report his death until two days later. After his father's death, Kim Jong-un quickly showed he had full control of the reins of power. Defying predictions of reform. In 1994, some experts predicted Kim Jong-il would be a bold North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has told citizens to prepare for hard times ahead, following warnings from rights groups that the country faces dire food shortages and economic instability The North Korean Famine (Korean: 조선기근), also known as the Arduous March or the March of Suffering (고난의 행군), was a period of mass starvation together with a general economic crisis from 1994 to 1998 in North Korea. During this time there was an increase in defection from North Korea which peaked towards the end of the famine period.. The famine stemmed from a variety of factors. Kim Jong-Nam, (born May 10, 1971, P'yŏngyang, North Korea—died February 13, 2017, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), North Korean scion who was the eldest son of Kim Jong Il, ruler (1994-2011) of North Korea.Although he was widely expected for many years to succeed his father, he fell out of favour and went into exile. He was assassinated in an airport in Kuala Lumpur. Kim Jong Il wanted it to continue so he "made every organization send a certain number of people to weep each day in front of the Kim Il Sung statue." The late Hwang Jang Yop, a former party ideology boss who defected to South Korea in 1997, wrote that after Kim Il Sung's death "the entire country was swept up in a flood of tears." By Eleanor Ross. On 13 February, Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half brother of Kim Jong Un, was believed to have been murdered in Kuala Lumpur airport after at least one woman attacked him, possibly .

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