The fact that China ( which is obsessed by Formosa -- to Khrushchev a very small matter ) should be supported by North Korea and North Vietnam is highly indicative.

Facing a prosecution which has demanded the death penalty, he said: ' I have participated in the war against Communism in Korea and at Dienbienphu, and I have helped in the evacuation of North Vietnamese to the free world.

Bursting from the lips of a charging cavalry trooper was the last sound heard on this earth by untold numbers of Cheyennes, Sioux and Apaches, Mexican banditos under Pancho Villa, Japanese in the South Pacific, and Chinese and North Korean Communists in Korea.

According to Juha Janhunen, the ancestral languages of Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Korean, and Japanese were spoken in a relatively small area comprising present-day North Korea, Southern Manchuria, and Southeastern Mongolia ( Johanson and Robbeets 2010: 2 ).

* Arirang Festival ( North Korea )

* 2003 – The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

These include: Albania, Afghanistan Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chad, Chile, the People's Republic of China, Côte d ' Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, DR Congo, Egypt, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Holy See ( Vatican City ), Honduras, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Libya, Malta, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Order of Malta, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Uruguay, and Vietnam.

* 1962 – James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone.

** Jogukhaebangui nal, " Fatherland Liberation Day " ( North Korea )

* 2004 – Two fuel trains collide in Ryongchon, North Korea, killing up to 150 people.

* 1998 – North Korea reportedly launches Kwangmyŏngsŏng-1, its first satellite.

* 2009 – North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket.

* Army Day ( North Korea )

* Military Foundation Day ( North Korea )

In 2009, Clinton travelled to North Korea on behalf of two American journalists imprisoned in North Korea.

Some military and medical aid was also supplied to North Korea and North Vietnam in the 1950s and 1960s.

This view was challenged by China and North Korea, who accused the U. S. of large-scale field testing of biological warfare against them during the Korean War ( 1950 – 1953 ), but this claim has been disputed.

Korea had been divided at the end of World War II along the 38th parallel into Soviet and U. S. occupation zones, in which a communist government was installed in the North by the Soviets, and an elected government in the South came to power after UN-supervised elections in 1948.

After Clinton met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, Kim issued a pardon.

In June 1950, Kim Il-sung's North Korean People's Army invaded South Korea.

Fearing that communist Korea under a Kim Il Sung dictatorship could threaten Japan and foster other communist movements in Asia, Truman committed U. S. forces and obtained help from the United Nations to counter the North Korean invasion.

* 1972 – Kim Il-sung, already Prime Minister of North Korea and General Secretary of the Workers ' Party of Korea, became the first President of North Korea.

* 2011 – Kim Jong-il, North Korean leader ( b. 1941 )

* 1964 – North Korean Prime Minister Kim Il-sung calls for the removal of feudalistic land ownership aimed at turning all cooperative farms into state-run ones.

* 1941 – Kim Jong-il, North Korean leader ( d. 2011 )

* Kim Jong-il's Birthday ( North Korea )

This may even lead to an institutional variability, as in North Korea, where, after the presidency of party leader Kim Il-Sung, the office was vacant for years, the late president being granted the posthumous title ( akin to some ancient Far Eastern traditions to give posthumous names and titles to royalty ) of " Eternal President " ( while all substantive power, as party leader, itself not formally created for four years, was inherited by his son Kim Jong Il, initially without any formal office ) until it was formally replaced on 5 September 1998, for ceremonial purposes, by the office of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, while the party leader's post as Chairman of the National Defense Commission was simultaneously declared " the highest post of the state ", not unlike Deng Xiaoping earlier in the People's Republic of China.

The late Kim Il-sung is North Korea's Eternal President of the Republic | Eternal President.

In North Korea, Kim Il-sung was named " eternal president " following his death and the presidency was abolished.

However, the symbolic role of a Head of State is generally performed by Kim Jong-un, who as the leader of the party and military, is the most powerful person in North Korea.

In Asia, Stalin fostered relations with Mao Zedong in China and Kim Il-sung in North Korea, and his rule served as a model for their newly formed respective governments.

Contrary to America's policy which restrained armament ( limited equipment was provided for infantry and police forces ) to South Korea, Stalin extensively armed Kim Il Sung's North Korean army and air forces with military equipment ( to include T-34 / 85 tanks ) and " advisors " far in excess of those required for defensive purposes ) in order to facilitate Kim's ( a former Soviet Officer ) aim of conquering the rest of the Korean peninsula.

Post – Cold War research in Soviet Archives has revealed that the Korean War was begun by Kim Il-sung with the express permission of Stalin, though this is disputed by North Korea.

* 2000 – President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.

* 1994 – Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.

* 1983 – Kim Jong-un, North Korean leader ( year disputed, possibly 1984 )

* Kim Jong-un's Birthday ( North Korea )

There were isolated clashes with Chinese troops along the border in 1968, and Red Guards erected loudspeakers on the border facing North Korea where they denounced Kim Il-sung and read quotations from Mao's Little Red Book.

The politics of North Korea take place within a nominally democratic multi-party system within the framework of the official state philosophy, Juche, a concept created by Hwang Chang-yŏp for and later attributed to Kim Il-sung.

In practice, North Korea functions as a single-party state under a totalitarian family dictatorship, described even as an absolute monarchy with Kim Il-sung and his heirs

A few of the notable exceptions were North Korea under Kim Il-sung, the People's Republic of China, under Mao Zedong, the Albanian Party of Labour under Enver Hoxha, the Communist Party of Indonesia, certain sections of the Communist Party of Vietnam, and the Communist Party of New Zealand.

* In July 1994, North Korean leader Kim Il-sung died, having ruled the country since its founding in 1948.

** Kim Il-sung Socialist Youth League ( North Korea )

* Kim Il-sung ( 1912 – 1994 ), leader of North Korea

Kim Il-sung reportedly did not trust that the Soviets would live up to the conditions of the mutual defense pact and guarantee North Korea's security since they betrayed Castro by withdrawing nuclear missiles in an effort to improve relations with the United States.

As a North Korean official explained to Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in 1965, " the Korean leaders were distrustful of the CPSU and the Soviet government, they could not count on that the Soviet government would keep the obligations related to the defense of Korea it assumed in the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, Kim Il-sung said, and therefore they were compelled to keep an army of 700, 000 and a police force of 200, 000.

Journalist Bradley Martin documented the personality cults of North Korea's father-son leadership, " Great Leader " Kim Il-sung and " Dear Leader " Kim Jong-il.

While visiting North Korea in 1979 he noted that nearly all music, art, and sculpture that he observed glorified " Great Leader " Kim Il-sung, whose personality cult was then being extended to his son, " Dear Leader " Kim Jong-il.

A US religious freedom investigation confirmed Martin's observation that North Korean schoolchildren learn to thank Kim Il-sung for all blessings as part of the cult.

In 1992, Kim Jong-il's voice was broadcast within North Korea for the first time during a military parade for the KPA's 60th year anniversary in Pyongyang's Kim Il-sung Square, in which Kim Il-sung attended with Kim Jong-il by his side.

A North Korean voting booth containing portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il under the national flag.

He had been named Wonsu, ( Marshal ) in 1992 when North Korea founder Kim Il-sung was promoted to Dae Wonsu.