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Kim Jong Il as supreme leader. President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly. Kim Yong-nam. 김영남. (born 1928) 5 September 1998. 11 April 2019. 20 years, 218 days. Workers' Party of Korea.
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 established ...
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 2011 and the leader 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 of North ...
The president of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( Korean : 조선민주주의인민공화국 주석) was the head of state of North Korea from 1972 to 1998. The position was only occupied by Kim Il Sung from 1972 until his death in 1994. Aside from being president, Kim was also the General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, 25 April 2019. North Korea was previously designated a state sponsor of terrorism by the U.S. [174] because of its alleged involvement in the 1983 Rangoon bombing and the 1987 bombing of a South Korean airliner. [175]
The strong and absolute leadership of a solitary great leader, known as the Suryong, is central to the North Korean ideology of Juche. [11] Four years after Kim Il Sung's 1994 death, a constitutional change wrote the presidency out of the constitution and named him as Eternal President of the Republic in order to honor his memory forever. [ 9 ]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Pyongyang, North Korea, 19 June 2024. The foreign relations of North Korea have been shaped by its conflict with South Korea (officially the Republic of Korea) and its historical ties with world communism.
The title of supreme leader ( Korean : 최고령도자; MR : Ch'oego Ryŏngdoja) of North Korea generally means the de facto top leader of the Workers' Party of Korea, the state and the Korean People's Army. Most of North Korea's leaders, who are called Supreme Leader, were not called this until after their death, going by other names like ...