Stuff like that is why we love to hate Kim Jong-il. The North Korean dictator recently decreed that from henceforth all cars of Japanese descent shall be banished from his land.

The funeral of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il triggered a suitably elaborate procession in Pyongyang. Immense crowds in the tens of thousands braved freezing temperatures to bid the leader ...

The funeral of Kim Jong-il made for a big story internationally, but in true Autoblog fashion, we were just as interested in the classic cars that figured prominently in the procession. Of ...

Cars, trains and ships blew their horns, national flags were lowered to half-staff and masses of people climbed Pyongyang’s Mansu Hill to lay flowers and bow before giant statues of Kim Jong Il ...

She said the cars were probably chosen because they were previously used in the funeral of Kim Il-sung, who was Kim Jong-il's father and the founding president of North Korea and who died in 1994.

Kim Jong Un’s private train, inherited from his father, is so heavy with bulletproofing that it can only go 37 mph. AP “Kim Jong Il picked at them with a fork and said: ‘What kind of pelmeni ...

Kim’s grandfather, Kim Il-sung, who first ruled North Korea, is said to have loved his ZIS Soviet limousine, while the dictator’s father, Kim Jong-il, was a Mercedes-Benz fan.

North Korean official Choe Ryong Hae called Kim Jong Il, who ruled for 17 years, “the parent of our people” who built up the potentials for the country’s military and economic might.

Kim Yang Gon's death in a car accident might be interpreted as paying the ultimate price for the collapse of the inter-Korean mini-détente following the August agreement.

In 2009, the Chosun media outlet in South Korea published details on the train used by Kim's father, Kim Jong Il, and estimated that its engine pulled around 90 cars behind it.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il toured a hydroelectric plant Sunday as his train traveled through Russia's Far East on his first visit to the Cold War-era ally in nine years.