The Kim family, officially the Mount Paektu bloodline (Korean: 백두혈통), named for Paektu Mountain, in the ideological discourse of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), and often referred to as the Kim dynasty after the Cold War's end, is a three-generation lineage of North Korean leadership, descending from the country's founder and first ...

The Kim family is a three-generation lineage of North Korean leaders. It started from the country's founder and first leader, Kim Il-sung. Koreans call it the Mount Paektu bloodline. The family has ruled North Korea since 1948.

Kim is the first leader of North Korea to have been born a North Korean citizen, his father having been born in the Soviet Union and his grandfather having been born during the Japanese colonial period.

He's the hermit madman with big nuclear dreams, but President Kim Jong-un and his family - who have ruled North Korea since 1948 - also have a strong line in kooky myths. Here are 10 things...

Dec 10, 2021 · Here’s a run down of North Korea’s three Supreme Leaders. Born in 1912, Kim Il-sung’s family were borderline-impoverished Presbyterians who resented Japanese occupation of the Korean peninsula: they fled to Manchuria around 1920.

Jun 17, 2020 · The Kim family, specifically Supreme Leaders Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, and Kim Jong-un, has ruled North Korea since 1948. Current leader Kim Jong-un has consolidated his power, purging many...

Kim became the first Supreme Leader of the Democratic Republic of North Korea (DPRK) who was born in North Korea as his grandfather was born in Soviet Russia, and his father in Unified Kora (during Imperial Japan’s occupation).

Feb 24, 2017 · Officially, in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or DPRK, there are four important members of the Kim family: North Korean founding father and president Kim Il-sung, his first wife...

Kim Il Sung is known to have had six children with two wives. The late DPRK President Kim Il Sung was born Kim Sung Ju (Kim So’ng-chu) 15 April 1912 in present-day Pyongyang. He was the oldest son of Kim Hyong Jik (Kim Hyo’ng-chik), a school teacher and herbalist , and Kang Ban Sok (Kang Pan-so’k).

Kim Jong Un (English: ; Korean: 김정은; born 8 January 1982, 1983 or 1984) 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.