And state media has been mum about his whereabouts, unusual considering it typically plasters his image everywhere, even if he’s just touring a lubricant factory. They are the head of state and also head of the North Korean government, the Workers’ Party of Korea. The leader of North Korea holds a political title of Supreme Leader of North Korea. Then CNN, citing an unnamed American official, reported that the US was “monitoring intelligence” that the supreme leader was in “grave danger.” Fueling speculation, Kim did something unheard of by skipping an April 15 commemoration of the birthday of Kim Il Sung, his grandfather and North Korea’s founder. The leaders of North Korea have been kept in the Kim family since the establishment of North Korea on September 9th 1948.

Either way, it raises the question of who would take control of the nuclear-armed nation of 25 million should he surprise the world and abruptly pass away.Įarlier this week, an unconfirmed report from Daily NK, a Seoul-based website, said the North Korean leader had undergone heart surgery and was recuperating at a villa outside the capital Pyongyang. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s influential sister Kim Yo Jong has become even more powerful after being promoted to the Hermit Kingdom’s top decision-making body. If reports this week are credible, supreme leader Kim Jong Un is in dire condition following surgery. Kim Jong-un ( / km dn, - n / Korean : Korean: kim.dz.n born 8 January 1982 or 1983) 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. It’s very hard to know what’s really going in North Korea.

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