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Supreme leader Took office Left office Time in office Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Tu-bong 김두봉 (1889–1958) 9 September 1948 20 September 1957 9 years, 11 days Workers' Party of North Korea: 1st SPA: Kim Il Sung: Workers' Party of Korea: Choe Yong-gon 최용건 (1900–1976) 20 September 1957 28 ...
Kim Jong Il, the former leader of North Korea, received numerous titles during his rule. Despite his death in 2011, he is currently the Eternal Chairman of the National Defense Commission of the Republic.
Kim Jong Un [d] (born 8 January 1982, 1983 or 1984) [b] is a North Korean politician and dictator who has been the third Supreme Leader of North Korea since December 2011 and general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) since 2012.
The supreme leader of North Korea (Korean: 최고령도자; MR: Ch'oego Ryŏngdoja) is the de facto hereditary leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea, the state and the Korean People's Army. The title is honorary, given only after death in the first two cases.
The president was the de jure head of state of North Korea, but whose powers were exercised by the "sacred leader" of the nation's state ideology called Juche. According to Ashley J. Tellis and Michael Wills, this amendment to the preamble was an indication of the unique North Korean characteristic of being a theocratic state based on the ...
Sue Mi Terry, a former CIA North Korea analyst, said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un does not look healthy, based on footage of him meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “My first ...
A North Korean who escaped the country described his days in the Korean People's Army. He told BI that he trained men from the Storm Corps, the elite unit believed to be fighting Ukraine.
It is unclear whether North Korea has mastered the technology needed to build warheads small enough to be carried on a cruise missile, but leader Jong-Un said earlier this year that developing ...