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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 January 2025. Dictator of North Korea from 1948 to 1994 In this Korean name, the family name is Kim. Eternal President Kim Il Sung 김일성 Official portrait, 1966 General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea In office 12 October 1966 – 8 July 1994 Secretary See list Choe Yong-gon Kim Il Pak Kum ...
Workers' Party of Korea: President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Kim Il Sung 김일성 (1912–1994) 28 December 1972 8 July 1994 † 21 years, 192 days Workers' Party of Korea: 5th SPA 6th SPA 7th SPA 8th SPA 9th SPA: Himself Vacant (8 July 1994–5 September 1998) Yang Hyong-sop as Chairman of the SPA Standing Committee
[15] [16] By some accounts, Cho Man-sik was the Soviet government's first choice to lead North Korea. [17] [18] On 19 September, Kim Il Sung and 66 other Korean Red Army officers arrived in Wonsan. They had fought the Japanese in Manchuria in the 1930s but had lived in the USSR and trained in the Red Army since 1941. [19]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 31 December 2024. 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 ...
North Korea, [d] officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), [e] 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.
President-elect Donald Trump has been keen on easing hostilities between the US and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. ... When Trump first entered office in 2017, North Korea was seen as a ...
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.
The grandson, Kim Jong Un, was first called "Supreme Leader" in a North Korean newspaper article dated October 3, 2020, with the frequency increasing since then, including sometimes "great Supreme Leader". [1] He was the first to be frequently called "Supreme Leader" while still alive, and at the relatively young age of 37. [1]