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"Country Profile: North Korea" (PDF). Library of Congress – Federal Research Division. July 2007; French, Paul (2007). North Korea: The Paranoid Peninsula: A Modern History (Second ed.). Zed Books. Martin, Bradley K. (2004). Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty. New York City, New York: Thomas Dunne Books.
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 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.
All three leaders have served as leaders of the WPK and served as North Korea's supreme leaders since the state's establishment in 1948. The North Korean government denies that there is a personality cult surrounding the Kim family, describing the people's devotion to the family as a personal manifestation of support for their nation's ...
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 ...
North Korea, [ c] officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( DPRK ), [ d] 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.
Other business leaders were also chosen to be members of the National Assembly through proportional representation. [5] Hyundai has made efforts in the thawing of North Korean relations , despite some controversy. [ 6 ]
e. The President of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea[ 1] ( Korean : 조선민주주의인민공화국 국무위원장 ), alternatively styled "President of State Affairs" in official translations, is the supreme leader and head of state of North Korea. [ 2] The president chairs the State Affairs ...