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There is no official confirmation of the reclusive leader's travel or its purpose. The son is expected to be named as Kim's successor. In a trip shrouded in mystery and speculation, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il appeared Thursday to be traveling to China by train with his youngest son, according to a South Korean government official.

As its leader, Kim Jong-il, was watching, North Korea’s rubber-stamp Parliament fired its prime minister and elevated his brother-in-law to the regime’s No. 2 post on Monday in a sweeping government reshuffle analysts said was aimed at defusing public anger over a disastrous revaluation of its currency while consolidating Mr. Kim’s power.

North Korea’s government appears to be trying to build a personality cult around Kim Jong-un, the youngest son of Kim Jong-il.

The North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il, held talks with Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China as his government tried to mend ties with Beijing.

Former President Bill Clinton arrived in the United States Wednesday morning after a dramatic 20-hour visit to North Korea, in which he won the freedom of two American journalists, opened a diplomatic channel to North Korea’s reclusive government and dined with the North’s ailing leader, Kim Jong-il.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, 67, has life-threatening pancreatic cancer, South Korean broadcaster YTN said on Monday, citing information gathered from Chinese and South Korean intelligence sources.

The youngest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has taken charge at the country's spy agency to prepare him to inherit the leadership of the nation from his father, a news report said Wednesday.

South Korea’s main intelligence agency has reported on signs that Kim Jong-un, the youngest and least-known son of Kim Jong-il, was the likely successor in North Korea.

Kim Jong Il was unanimously re-elected to North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament, state media said Monday, in elections closely ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has named his youngest son to succeed him as head of the Stalinist nation, a South Korean news ...