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There are more than a dozen leader's residences in North Korea, according to Kim Jong Il's former bodyguard Lee Young-kuk. [1] Many of the residences were identified on satellite images [2] in the North Korea Uncovered project. [3] Ryongsong Residence is the central residence of Kim Jong Un. [4]
Ryongsong Residence [1] (Korean: 룡성 관저), also called Residence No. 55 (55호 관저), [2] is the main official residence of North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un and first lady Ri Sol-ju. [ 3 ]
The Sinuiju North Korean Leader's Residence (Korean: 신의주 관저; Hanja: 新義州 官邸), which may locally be known as the Central Luxury House or Central Luxury Residence, is one of the many official residences of North Korean leader and Workers' Party of Korea's general secretary Kim Jong-Un.
The residence is located in Kangdong-gun, a suburban county of Pyongyang, around 30 km (19 mi) northeast of Kim Il-sung Square. [3] Taedong River is just 1 km (0.62 mi) to the north. [ 4 ] The size of the whole leadership complex is around 4 km 2 (1.5 sq mi).
The Kumsusan Palace of the Sun (Korean: 금수산태양궁전), formerly the Kumsusan Memorial Palace (금수산기념궁전), is a building near the northeast corner of the city of Pyongyang that serves as the mausoleum for Kim Il Sung, first Supreme Leader and founder of North Korea, and for his son Kim Jong Il, both posthumously designated as the Eternal leaders of North Korea (Eternal ...
North Korea's regime vowed to take up its "toughest" policies against the U.S. at a meeting of the country's ruling party last week. The Dec. 23-27 meeting featured top members of the Workers ...
January 5 – North Korea fires 200 artillery shells near South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island, prompting evacuations. [1]January 15 – North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un says that Korean reunification is "no longer possible" and asks the Supreme People's Assembly to amend the constitution to formally recognize South Korea as a separate state.
[2] [26] [27] North Korea did not cooperate with this mandate. In addition, in 2009, the North Korean government was the first state to not accept any of the 167 recommendations received from the adoption of its first Universal Periodic Review (a review on human rights conducted by the HRC on all UN members).