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    Kim Jong Il

    Leader of North Korea from to

    For the South Korean long jumper, see Kim Jong-il (long jumper).

    In this Korean name, the family name is Kim.

    Eternal General Secretary

    Kim Jong Il

    Kim in August

    In office
    8 October &#;– 17 December
    Preceded byKim Il Sung
    Succeeded byKim Jong Un (as First Secretary)
    In office
    9 April &#;– 17 December
    First Vice ChairmanO Jin-u
    Jo Myong-rok
    Vice Chairman
    Preceded byKim Il Sung
    Succeeded byKim Jong Un (as First Chairman)
    In office
    24 December &#;– 17 December
    Preceded byKim Il Sung
    Succeeded byKim Jong Un
    In office
    8 October &#;– 17 December
    Preceded byKim Il Sung
    Succeeded byKim Jong Un
    Born

    Yuri Irsenovich Kim


    ()16 February
    Vyatskoye, Khabarovsk Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
    Died17 December () (aged&#;70)
    Pyongyang, North Korea
    Resting placeKumsusan Palace of the Sun
    Nationality
    Political partyWorkers'
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    Profile: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un

    Not much was known of Kim Jong Un's personal life until television footage of an unidentified woman attending events with him surfaced. In July , state media announced that he was married to "Comrade Ri Sol Ju".

    Little is known of Ms Ri, but her stylish appearance led some analysts to suggest that she was from an upper-class family. Reports have suggested that Ms Ri may have been a singer who caught Mr Kim's attention during a performance.

    According to South Korean intelligence, the couple have three children.

    Kim Jong Un's sister, Kim Yo Jong, holds a senior post in the ruling Workers' Party of Korea - and stole the limelight when she represented her brother at the Winter Olympics in the South.

    According to South Korea's spy agency, Ms Kim steers "overall state affairs" and has responsibility for Pyongyang's policy towards the US and South Korea, among other portfolios, and is "the

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        Known as “the Sun of Korea,” Kim Il-Sung () was born Kim Sung-Ju in Mangyongdae by near Pyongyang to a Christian mother (Kang Ban Sok) and father (Kim Hyong Jik)  who taught in a Western missionary school and was a practitioner of Koryo (traditional) medicine. To avoid the Japanese occupation, the family moved to Manchuria where Kim Sung-Ju attended school to 8th grade. He became active in vagabond anti-Japanese bands and joined the kinesisk Communist Party. In his guerilla comrades (according to him) gave him the name “Il Sung,” the sun. He eventually became leader of a division in the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army. Contrary to accepted legend, his guerrilla efforts against the Japanese were of marginal impact but Kim Il-Sung was regarded as a good organizer. beneath intense Japanese pressure in China, the Korean partisans fled to the Soviet Union in where Kim Il-Sung became commander of a battalion of Korean and