Ethiopia development deal: Kim Yong-hwan, bottom left, chairman and president of the Export-Import Bank of Korea (Korea Eximbank), and Sufian Ahmed, bottom right, Ethiopian minister of finance ...

Former North Korea diplomat Koh Yong Hwan, who defected to South Korea in 1991, remembered Kim as loyal and diligent party official, a "model" of North Korean officialdom.

Images on Russia and North Korean state media showed Kim Jong Un traveling to Russia by armored train — a method of travel that has been used by the reclusive Kim dynasty for decades.

Kim Jong Un might also have seen that President Donald Trump was sending his daughter, ... Koh Yu-hwan, a North Korea expert at Seoul's Dongguk University, said Kim Yo Jong, ...