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Kim Jong-un

South Korean protestors and US human rights activists hold a banner showing a caricature of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) after they blocked a planned launch of anti-North Korean leaflets at Imjingak peace park in Paju near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas on May 4, 2013. South Korean police on May 4 stopped a planned launch of anti-North Korean leaflets across the tense border, sparking an angry protest from activists.

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  • State media shows NKorea has new military chief

    -- A North Korean state media dispatch shows that leader Kim Jong Un has named a hardline general as his new military chief.The new title for Kim Kyok Sik came in a dispatch Wednesday from the North's Korean Central News Agency detailing a delegation at Pyongyang's 5/21/13 Read more »

  • Rodman to Kim: 'Do me a solid' and free American

    -- Former NBA star Dennis Rodman is tapping his friendship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to call for the release of a Korean-American man detained in the North.Rodman met with Kim and watched an exhibition game together when he visited Pyongyang in   Read more »

  • Letters: How to deal with North Korea

    editorial about Kim Jong Un 's threat to initiate nuclear war mentions that there are reasons why he is doing so -- one of which is to break free of the economic sanctions imposed on North Korea ["Don't reward Kim Jong Un," April 12]. If this is an accurate   Read more »

  • Helicopter makes 'hard landing' as North Korea marks founders birthday

    of high tensions.Instead, the front page of the Rodong Sinmun, the Workers' Party newspaper, on Tuesday featured photos of Kim Jong Un at an orchestral performance the night before along with his aunt, Kim Kyong Hui, and other top officials. North Korean media   Read more »

  • Seeking calm in Koreas, U.S. looks again to China

    tensions in a peaceful manner.The question of how Washington can persuade Beijing to exert real pressure on Korean leader Kim Jong Un 's unpredictable regime was front and center as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held a series of meetings with Chinese   Read more »

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About Kim Jong-un

Kim Jong-un also romanised as Kim Jong-eun or Kim Jung-eun, (born 8 January 1983 or 1984), is the current supreme leader of North Korea, officially known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. He has held the titles of the First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, the Chairman of the Central Military Commission, First Chairman of the National Defence Commission of North Korea, the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, and also a presidium member of the Central Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea. He was officially declared the supreme leader following the state funeral for his father, Kim Jong-il on December 28, 2011. He is the third and youngest son of his deceased predecessor Kim Jong-il and his consort Ko Young-hee. From late 2010, Kim Jong-un was viewed as heir apparent to the leadership of the nation, and following his father's death, he was announced as the "Great Successor" by North Korean state television. At Kim Jong-il's memorial service, North Korean president Kim Yong-nam declared that "Respected Comrade Kim Jong-un is our party, military and country’s supreme leader who inherits great comrade Kim Jong-il’s ideology, leadership, character, virtues, grit and courage". On 30 December 2011 the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea formally appointed Kim as the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army. On 11 April 2012, the 4th Party Conference elected him to the newly-created post of First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.

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