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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 (1912–1994) 28 ...
First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea 11 April 2012 – 9 May 2016 Elected at 4th Conference of the Workers' Party of Korea. [3] 조선로동당 위원장 (朝鮮勞動黨 委員長) Chosŏn Rodongdang wiwŏnjang: Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea 9 May 2016 – 10 January 2021 Elected at the 7th Congress of the Workers' Party of ...
Under Kim Jong Un, North Korea has continued to develop nuclear weapons, testing bombs in February 2013, January and September 2016, and September 2017. [158] As of 2021, North Korea had tested nearly 120 missiles, four times more than in the time of his father and grandfather. [109] [86] By 2023, this climbed up to a total of 226. [159]
The supreme leader of North Korea (Korean: 최고령도자; MR: Ch'oego Ryŏngdoja) is the de facto hereditary leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea, the state and the Korean People's Army. The title is honorary, given only after death in the first two cases.
North Korea, [d] officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ... One of the most prominent guerrilla leaders was the Communist Kim Il Sung. [27] Founding
The premier of North Korea, officially the premier of the Cabinet of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is the head of government of North Korea and leader of the North Korean Cabinet. The premier is officially appointed by the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA), which also appoints other members of the Cabinet on the nomination of the ...
North Korea has fired what appears to be an intermediate-range ballistic missile towards the sea to its east, South Korea's military said, in what is Pyongyang's first missile launch in two months ...
The 1972 North Korean constitution stated that the president of North Korea is also the chairman of the National Defence Commission, as well as the supreme commander of the country's armed forces. [2] Kim Il Sung, who was the president of North Korea, was the chairman of the National Defence Commission from 28 December 1972 until 9 April 1993.