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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 ...
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]
In one-party states, the ruling party's leader (e.g. the General Secretary) is usually the de facto top leader of the state, though sometimes this leader also holds the presidency or premiership. In Andorra , Iran , and Vatican City ( Holy See ), a clergy member also acts as the head of state.
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. The calendar was adopted in 1997, three years after the death of ...
Governor-General of Chōsen, List of Japanese governors-general of Korea (1910–1945) Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, List of presidents (1919–1948) North Korea (1948–present), Supreme Leader (North Korean title) / List of heads of state of North Korea; South Korea (1948–present), List of presidents of South Korea
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 ...
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un rolled through Russia on an armored train Tuesday toward a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, a rare encounter between isolated leaders driven together by their ...
(Birth–Death) Term of office Party Head of state SPA; Took office Left office Time in office; 1: Kim Il Sung 김일성 (1912–1994) 9 September 1948 28 December 1972 24 years, 110 days Workers' Party of North Korea (until 1949) Kim Tu-bong (1948–1957) 1st: Workers' Party of Korea (from 1949) Choe Yong-gon (1957–1972) 2nd: 3rd: 4th ...