North Korea said on Saturday it will hold an annual parliamentary session next month during which Kim Jong-un, is expected to be appointed officially.
The preserved body of Kim Jong-il will go on permanent display in a Pyongyang palace and memorial towers will be built to honour the late leader.
Tens of thousands of North Koreans have packed the snowy main square of the capital to pledge their loyalty to new leader Kim Jong-un.
North Korea in a policy-setting message for New Year called on its people to rally behind anointed successor Kim Jong-un by becoming "human shields".
Warning of "seas of fire" and calling opponents "foolish", the new leaders of North Korea say the country’s stance against South Korea won’t change.
A day after mourners packed Pyongyang to bid adieu to ‘Dear Leader’ Kim Jong-il, North Korea has completed the transfer of power to his youngest son.
Kim Jong-Il’s son, Kim Jong-Un, is being lauded as the head of the workers’ party central committee while his uncle shapes as power-broker.
Kim Jong-un has been identified as head of a top decision-making body of the Workers’ Party, giving him authority over political and military matters.
North Korea’s leading newspaper has referred to the son of Kim Jong-Il as head of a key ruling party body, suggesting he’s on track to take control.
North Korea has warned of ‘unpredictable catastrophic consequences’ for relations unless Seoul eases restrictions on visits to mourn Kim Jong-Il.
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/ 24 December 2011
North Korea has vowed to uphold with ‘blood and tears’ Kim Jong-il’s son as ‘supreme commander’ as the country prepares him to be its leader.
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/ 24 December 2011
North Korea appears to be making an orderly transition after the death of Kim Jong-il last week, but the risk of collapse is higher than before.
Mourning centres have been set up across North Korea in a show of public grief over Kim Jong Il’s death, but attention is shifting to his young son.
Kim Jong-Il’s death is raising tough questions, not only of policy but of protocol, with major world powers divided on how to offer condolences.
North Korea’s new young leader Kim Jong-un will have to share power with an uncle and the military after the death of his father Kim Jong-il.
North Korea says millions of people have turned out to mourn Kim Jong-Il, whose death has left the world scrambling for information on his successor.
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/ 20 December 2011
The body of North Korea’s long-time ruler Kim Jong Il was laid out in a glass coffin on Tuesday as weeping mourners filled public plazas.
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/ 20 December 2011
Reunification could lift millions of North Koreans out of poverty and boost average income by at least tenfold. But it would probably slow South Korea
A secretive convoy from North Korea visited the Chinese city of Changchun on Saturday, in what may be Kim Jong-il’s latest trip to shore up ties.
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/ 10 January 2011
Computer hackers from South and North Korea are waging an apparent propaganda battle in cyberspace.
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/ 28 December 2010
South Korean activists rallied on Tuesday against North Korea, burning a flag and photos of the North’s leaders to protest a deadly artillery attack.
Yeonpyeong island is on a maritime demarcation line that Pyongyang has refused to recognise since it was imposed in 1953.
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/ 10 October 2010
Secretive North Korea’s leader-in-waiting, the youngest son of ailing ruler Kim Jong-il, took centre stage during a massive military parade on Sunday.
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/ 30 September 2010
A photograph of a plump young man seated near North Korea’s ailing ruler confirmed the rise of Kim Jong-il’s youngest son as the leader-in waiting.
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/ 28 September 2010
North Korea’s ailing leader Kim Jong-il gave his youngest son his first public title on Tuesday, naming him a general.
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/ 27 September 2010
North Korea’s military has nominated the third son of ailing leader Kim Jong-il as a delegate to a rare meeting of the ruling party.
North Korea will hold a ruling Workers’ Party convention in September to choose a new leadership, state media said on Saturday.
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/ 24 January 2010
Through astrology, hints and allusions in the state media, North Koreans are being softened up to accept Kim Jong-il’s successor — his third son.