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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.
Kim used this event to introduce his wife to the public, an unprecedented move in North Korea. [107] In the same year, Kim Jong Il's personal chef Kenji Fujimoto visited North Korea and said, "Stores in Pyongyang were brimming with products and people in the streets looked cheerful. North Korea has changed a lot since Kim Jong Un assumed power.
The first historical document that records the surname dates to 636 and references it as the surname of Korean King Jinheung of Silla (526–576). In the Silla kingdom (57 BCE – 935 CE)—which variously battled and allied with other states on the Korean peninsula and ultimately unified most of the country in 668—Kim was the name of a family that rose to prominence and became the rulers of ...
Sung-Yoon Lee: Kim Yo Jong is the first preeminent and powerful female figure to emerge in the brutish, male-dominated political landscape of North Korea, ruled by the Kim family for 75 years ...
Portraits of leaders are at the core of North Korea’s state-sponsored cult of personality that has buttressed the Kim family’s rule since the country’s foundation in 1948.
The Kim family or Kim clan may refer to the following Korean groups: Kim family (North Korea), the rulers of North Korea since Kim Il Sung in 1948; Gimhae Kim clan associated with the Geumgwan Gaya; later rulers of Silla, mostly members of the Gyeongju Kim clan; Andong Kim clan of the Joseon Dynasty; Jeonju Kim clan
Every North Korean is given a lapel badge when they turn 12 bearing the image of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and it must be worn whenever they leave home.
The Sister offers a profile of the enigmatic Kim Yo Jong (b. 1987), [1] [4] sister to Kim Jong Un, the leader of North Korea. Both siblings are the third generation in the Kim dynasty, [1] preceded by their father Kim Jong-Il, and their grandfather and founder of North Korea, Kim Il-Sung.