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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 February 2025. Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011 For the South Korean long jumper, see Kim Jong-il (long jumper). In this Korean name, the family name is Kim. Eternal General Secretary Kim Jong Il 김정일 Kim in August 2011 General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea In office 8 October ...
Kim Jong Il as supreme leader: President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong-nam 김영남 (born 1928) 5 September 1998 11 April 2019 20 years, 218 days Workers' Party of Korea: 10th SPA 11th SPA 12th SPA 13th SPA: Kim Jong Il Kim Jong Un: President of the State Affairs Commission Kim Jong Un 김정은 (born 1984) 11 ...
The first of Kim Jong Il's titles. Has been in use since 1973 after Kim was secretly appointed as his father's successor and until it was officially announced in order to mention Kim Jong Il in press without calling him by name. [8] 웃분 Utpun Superior Person The title has been in use since the middle of the 1970s. [8] 친애하는 지도자
North Koreans also bow to statues of Kim Jong Il, the father of their current leader, Kim Jong Un. A public square in Rason, North Korea, in 2017.
Their birthdays — April 15 for Kim Il Sung, and Feb. 16 for Kim Jong Il — are typically celebrated with tributes to their giant statues, dance parties, fireworks and art performances.
The Kim family, officially the Mount Paektu bloodline (Korean: 백두혈통), named for Paektu Mountain, in the ideological discourse of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), and often referred to as the Kim dynasty after the Cold War's end, is a three-generation lineage of North Korean leadership, descending from the country's founder and first leader, Kim Il Sung.
North Korea displayed the portrait of Kim Jong Un next to those of his father and grandfather — a significant step in cementing his status as leader of the nuclear-armed state.
It is thought that Kim's official birth year was changed for symbolic reasons; 1982 marked the seventieth birthday of his grandfather Kim Il Sung, and forty years after the official birth of his father Kim Jong Il. [8] Kim Jong Un is the second of three children of Ko Yong Hui and Kim Jong Il; his elder brother, Kim Jong Chul, was born in 1981 ...