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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 (1912–1994) 28 ...
North Korean authorities and state-run media have stated that Kim Jong Un was born on 8 January 1982, [4] but South Korean intelligence officials believe that the actual date is a year later, in 1983. [5] The US government lists his birth year as 1984, based on the passport he used while studying in Switzerland. [6]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 February 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 Jong Un (born 8 January 1983) has been the supreme leader of North Korea since the death of Kim Jong Il in 2011. [1]On 15 April 2012, the centenary of the birth of North Korea's first leader Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Un made his first major public speech, entitled Let Us March Forward Dynamically Towards Final Victory, Holding Higher the Banner of Songun. [2]
(Birth–Death) Term of office Party SPA; Took office Left office Time in office; 1 Kim Il Sung 김일성 (1912–1994) 28 December 1972 9 April 1992 19 years, 103 days Workers' Party of Korea: 5th: 6th: 7th: 8th: 9th: Chairman of the National Defence Commission 국방위원회 위원장; No. Portrait Name (Birth–Death) Term of office Party ...
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 ...
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.
Kim Yo Jong (Korean: 김여정; [2] born 26 September 1987) is a North Korean politician and diplomat, and sister of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. She is the Deputy Department Director of the Publicity and Information Department of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). Since September 2021, she has been a member of State Affairs Commission of North ...