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North Korea, [c] officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), [d] is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu (Amnok) and Tumen rivers, and South Korea to the south at the Korean Demilitarized Zone. [e] The country's western border is ...
North Korea's political system is built upon the principle of centralization. The constitution defines North Korea as "a dictatorship of people's democracy " [3] under the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), which is given legal supremacy over other political parties.
Kim Jong Un[c][d] (English: / ˌkɪm dʒɒŋˈʊn, - ˈuːn /; [2] born 8 January 1982, 1983 or 1984) [e] is a North Korean politician who has been supreme leader of North Korea since December 2011 and the general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) since 2012. [f] He is the third son of Kim Jong Il, who was the second supreme leader ...
t. e. The history of North Korea began with the end of World War II in 1945. The surrender of Japan led to the division of Korea at the 38th parallel, with the Soviet Union occupying the north, and the United States occupying the south. The Soviet Union and the United States failed to agree on a way to unify the country, and in 1948, they ...
Kim Jong Il. Kim Jong Il[b] (/ ˌkɪm dʒɒŋˈɪl /; [3] Korean: 김정일; Korean pronunciation: [kim.dzɔŋ.il]; [c] born Yuri Kim; [d] 16 February 1941 or 1942 – 17 December 2011) was a North Korean politician who was the second supreme leader of North Korea. He led North Korea from the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994 until his ...
Under his leadership, North Korea was established as a totalitarian socialist personalist dictatorship with a centrally planned economy. It had very close political and economic relations with the Soviet Union. By the 1960s, North Korea had a slightly higher standard of living than the South, which was suffering from political chaos and ...
Park Chung Hee (Korean: 박정희; November 14, 1917 – October 26, 1979) was a South Korean politician and army officer who served as the 3rd President of South Korea from 1962 to 1979 after he seized power in the May 16 coup of 1961. He is regarded as one of the most consequential leaders in Korean history, although his legacy as a military ...
On 13 February 2017, Kim Jong-nam, the older half-brother of the dictator of North Korea Kim Jong Un, was assassinated at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia. He had been living abroad since his exile from North Korea in 2003. Following his visit to the resort island Langkawi, Kim Jong-nam arrived at terminal 2 sometime before 9: ...