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Kim Yong-ju (Korean: 김영주; 1920 – 14 December 2021) was a North Korean politician and the younger brother of Kim Il Sung, who ruled North Korea from 1948 to 1994. . Under his brother's rule, Kim Yong-ju held key posts including Politburo member in the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) during the 1960s and early 1970s, but he fell out of favour in 1974 following a power struggle with Kim Jong
The Principles were originally proposed in 1967 by Kim Yong-ju, the younger brother of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung, following the Kapsan faction incident that had unsuccessfully sought to challenge Kim Il Sung's authority and Kim Yong-ju's position as the heir apparent of that time. [2]
The regime bans religion and persecutes any known practitioners. However, Kim Il-sung's parents were Christian (and her mother a deaconess). North Korea relegates to the lowest class in the regime's caste system any families with links to Japan, as they are deemed disloyal. However, Kim Jong-un's and Yo Jong's mother Ko Yong Hui was born in ...
Kim Yong-ju: December 1993 Honorary Vice President of the SPA Presidium; 5 Kim Yong-nam: August 1978 President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly; 6 Kye Ung-thae: October 1980 Secretary for National Security; Died, 23 November 2006. 7 Jon Pyong-ho: November 1988 Secretary for Military Industry; Member of the National Defence ...
Kim Yo Jong is the youngest child of former North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Il and his wife, Ko Yong Hui. [7] The U.S. Treasury lists her birthdate as 26 September 1989, [8] while South Korean sources place her birth on 26 September 1987.
According to Kim Yong-hyun, a professor of North Korean studies at Dongguk University in Seoul, and others, the promotion of Yo Jong and others is a sign that "the Kim Jong Un regime has ended its co-existence with the remnants of the previous Kim Jong Il regime by carrying out a generational replacement in the party's key elite posts". [290]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 January 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 was elected member of the WPK Secretariat and a leading figure of the WPK Organization and Guidance Department (the foremost party department led by her uncle Kim Yong-ju until 1974, and by Kim Jong Il himself from 1974 till his death) at the 4th Party Conference in April 2012. [citation needed]