As the world watched North Koreans mourn the death of their leader Kim Jong Il on Monday, some were surprised by and even suspicious of the intense outpouring of emotion seen in the streets of Pyon… ...

In this image made from KRT video, a mourner cries during the funeral procession for late North Koeran leader Kim Jong Il, in Pyongyang, North Korea.(Dec. 28. 2011). Credit: AP ...

PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea’s next leader escorted his father’s hearse in an elaborate state funeral on a bitter, snowy day Wednesday, bowing and saluting in front of tens of ...

North Korea is unambiguously a totalitarian state. An estimated 200,000 North Koreans are held under brutal conditions in remote forced labor camps called kwan-li-so.

KHQ.COM- North Korea is punishing citizens who didn't cry during the orchestrated public mourning over the death of Kim Jong Il, sentencing them to six months in a labor-training camp, ...

When Kim's father, North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, died in 1994, the mourning proved infectious to Kim Yeong-nam, who defected to South Korea in 1998 and now runs an art troupe of fellow defectors.

On October 10, Kim Jong Un – North Korea’s notorious dictator – became one of the few world leaders to publicly shed tears while apologizing to his people for the hardships they’ve had to ...

Behind North Korea's tears Culture, ... “Most of the mourners were crying because they had been brainwashed by Kim Il Sung’s personality cult,” according to Hwang.

The pictures today from North Korea—the ones the regime has let the world see—make for a catalogue of public crying, a phenomenon that a number of writers have tried to understand this morning.

Earlier today, we were dumbfounded by the outlandish intensity of the sobbing that greeted the funeral procession of Kim Jong-Il in Pyongyang. Could the North Korean people really have been that ...

In this essay I explore the reaction, in Western media commentary, to the announcement of North Korean premier Kim Jong-il’s death in December 2011. I focus in particular on responses to the widely ...