Kim Jong Il (16 February 1941 – 17 December 2011) was a North Korean politician and dictator who was the second supreme leader of North Korea from the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994 until his own death in 2011. Posthumously, Kim Jong Il was...
Kim Jong Un (born 8 January c. 1982–1984) is a North Korean politician and dictator who has been serving as the supreme leader of North Korea since 2011, following the death of his father, Kim Jong Il. He is the third ruler from the Kim family to...
Kim Yo Jong (Korean: 김여정; born 26 September 1987) is a North Korean politician and diplomat, and sister of WPK General Secretary Kim Jong Un. She is widely believed to be among the most powerful figures in the secretive North Korean political...
Kim Jong-suk (Korean: 김정숙; 24 December 1917 – 22 September 1949) was a North Korean revolutionary, anti-Japanese guerrilla, Communist activist, the first wife of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung and the mother of former leader Kim Jong Il.
Kim Jong Il, supreme leader of North Korea and general secretary of the Worker's Party of Korea, died on 17 December 2011 as reported by Korean Central Television. The channel's main news anchor, Ri Chun-hee, announced that he had died on 17...
Kim Jong Chul (Korean: 김정철; born 25 September 1981), sometimes spelled Kim Jong Chol, is the son of the former North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il. His younger brother is current Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. His older half-brother is Kim...
Kim Jong-nam (Korean: 김정남, Korean: [kim.dzɔŋ.nam]; 10 May 1971 – 13 February 2017) was the eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. From roughly 1994 to 2001, he was considered the heir apparent to his father. In 2017, Kim was assassinated in...
Kim Pyong Il (Korean: 김평일; born 10 August 1954) is a retired North Korean diplomat. He is the only surviving son of former leader and dictator of North Korea Kim Il Sung, the younger paternal half-brother of the late leader of North Korea, Kim Jong...
Kim Il Sung, founder and supreme leader of North Korea, died of a heart attack in the early morning of 8 July 1994 at age 82. North Korea's government did not report the death for more than 34 hours after it occurred. An official mourning period was...
Kim Man-il (Korean: 김만일; born Alexander Kim; 1943–1947) was the second son of the North Korean founding leader Kim Il Sung and his first wife Kim Jong Suk. He was the younger brother of Kim Jong Il, the second leader of North Korea.