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9 years, 11 days Workers' Party of North Korea: 1st SPA: Kim Il Sung: Workers' Party of Korea: Choe Yong-gon 최용건 (1900–1976) 20 September 1957 28 December 1972 15 years, 99 days Korean Social Democratic Party: 2nd SPA 3rd SPA 4th SPA: Workers' Party of Korea: President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Kim Il Sung 김일성 ...
The Juche calendar, named after the Juche ideology, was the system of year-numbering used in North Korea between 1997 and 2024. It begins with the birth of Kim Il Sung, the founder of North Korea. His birth year, 1912 in the Gregorian calendar, is "Juche 1" in the Juche calendar.
North Korean authorities and state-run media have stated that Kim Jong Un was born on 8 January 1982, [4] but South Korean intelligence officials believe that the actual date is a year later, in 1983. [5] The US government lists his birth year as 1984, based on the passport he used while studying in Switzerland. [6]
This is a list of current heads of state and heads of government. In some cases, mainly in presidential systems , one leader is head of state and head of government . In other cases, mainly in semi-presidential and parliamentary systems , the head of state and the head of government are different people.
North Korea leader Kim Jong Un visited the bier of Kim at 2 a.m. on Wednesday to pay tribute "with bitter grief over the loss of a veteran revolutionary who had remained boundlessly loyal" to the ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 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 ...
More recently, the North Korean government has been alarmed by the popularity of South Korean TV dramas, sentencing two teenagers to 12 years of hard labor for watching them.
North Korean media have published photographs showing leader Kim Jong Un's portrait hanging prominently next to those of his father and grandfather, in an apparent push to solidify his status as a ...