SEOUL, South Korea -- Kim Yong Nam, a longtime North Korean ceremonial head of state best known for his trademark ...

The Korean Central News Agency said that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited the bier of Kim Yong Nam on Tuesday to ...

Kim Yong Nam, former president of the Presidium of North Korea’s rubber-stamp Supreme People’s Assembly, was a lifelong ...

Kim Yong Nam, a quintessential North Korean bureaucrat whose lifelong loyalty to the ruling Kim dynasty allowed him to serve as the country’s ceremonial head of state for two decades, has died, state ...

Kim Jong Un is ‘willing to engage’ with Trump and could seek summit soon, South Korea says - Trump had suggested he could ...

Yong Nam's tenure as head of North Korea’s parliament made him the country’s nominal head of state and allowed him to appear ...

The North Korean leader has previously shown little interest in renewed diplomacy with President Donald Trump, who met with ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is willing to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump, according to reports in Seoul citing ...

In a country where political purges are frequent, Mr. Kim was a notable exception and served three generations of its ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un led a state funeral for the country’s longtime ceremonial head of state, Kim Yong Nam, who ...

Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said she wants to hold a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un – something no Japanese leader has done in more than 20 years.

The assessment, citing ‘subtle changes’ in North Korean rhetoric, appears in a letter from the agency to leaders of South ...