In 1979, due to his prior military experience and high-rank, Kim Pyong-il was made a military attache at the North Korean embassy to Yugoslavia. Meanwhile, that same year, Kim Jong-il was ...

For decades most Koreans have been in the dark about Kim Jong-il’s half brother, Kim Pyong-il, and his family. But rare pictures of Kim, 54, and his two children have turned up on the home page of the ...

Kim Pyong Il, 65, is the last known surviving son of North Korea's founder, Kim Il Sung For about as long as North Korea has existed, Kim Pyong Il has been considered a possible successor to the ...

Kim Pyong-il has been rumoured to be preparing to take in charge of North Korea after the alleged demise of his nephew, Kim Jong-unCredit: Alamy Chang Song-min, a former aide to ex-South Korean ...

Kim Pyong Il, could also be a contender. The 65-year-old is the last known survivor of the Hermit Kingdom’s founder, Kim Il Sung, Bloomberg News reported. In the 1970s, Kim Pyong Il was passed ...

Kim Pyong-il, the North Korean ambassador to Poland, is deeply grieving the death of his half brother and the socialist country's leader Kim Jong-il, an embassy official said Friday. Kim Jong-il ...

Will his sister Kim Yo-jong take power? What about his father’s half-brother Kim Pyong-il? Are Chinese and U.S. officials secretly negotiating over his nuclear weapons while the world waits for ...

Kim Jong-un’s decision to take out his half-brother Kim Jong-nam, with the assassins using an internationally banned chemical agent to do it, is not the usual mode of operation for North Korea ...

Some of the children he had with his second wife went on to become prominent in North Korean politics, including Kim Pyong-il. It has also been reported that Kim had other children with other ...

Though at one point Kim Pyong-il was a viable successor to Kim Il-sung, his forty year absence from Pyongyang’s political sphere will make it difficult to attain the support necessary to take ...