As Kim Jong-un brought North Korea’s ninth party congress to a close on Thursday, he did so with his 13-year-old daughter at his side.

Kim Jong-un visited the Sangwon Cement Union Enterprise, a cement production base in Sangwon County, North Hwanghae Province, on the 1st and encouraged the achievement of production goals. On that day, he was seen smoking a cigarette, giving instructions with a relaxed expression and demeanor.

After North Korea’s ninth party congress, state media has stopped referencing Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism, signaling a new ideological era.

North Korea is a pathologically distorted structure in which every system is subordinated entirely to the life and death of a single autocrat.

When he died in December 2011, Kim Jong-il left behind more than a dynastic regime and a closet full of drab pantsuits. Jong-il, who ruled the hermetic North Korea from his father Kim Il Sung’s death in 1994 until his own passing 17 years later, was a ...

Kim Jong-un is the supreme leader of North Korea, the third and youngest son of Kim Jong-il (1941–2011) and the grandson of Kim Il-sung (1912–1994). Following his father's death in 2011, he was announced as the "Great Successor" by North Korean state television.