North Korea celebrated the 113th birthday of its founding leader, Kim Il-sung, on Tuesday by reaffirming loyalty to his grandson, Kim Jong-un, and promoting an unbroken ideological lineage that ties ...

The Buddha statue unearthed recently in North Korea was sculpted during the Golden Age of Buddhism, which emerged out of an ...

Depicted by the statue is the Buddha Amitābha, a prominent figure in Mahayana Buddhism.