The cult of personality surrounding the Kim family has existed in North Korea for decades and can be found in many examples of North Korean culture. Although not acknowledged by the North Korean government, many defectors and Western visitors state...
Visual depictions of Kim Il Sung have been commonplace in North Korea since the 1940s following the example of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union and Mao Zedong in China, though to an extent that supersedes both. The display of Kim Il Sung portraits...
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 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 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...
The Paektusan Secret Camp is claimed to be a former military base on Mount Paektu, and the claimed birthplace of Kim Jong-Il, though other sources report he was born in the Soviet Union. The official North Korean histography claims that it played an...
The Kim family is the three-generation lineage of North Korean leadership, descending from the country's founder and first leader, Kim Il Sung. Officially known as the Mount Paektu Bloodline (Korean: 백두혈통) in the ideological discourse of the...
Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il badges are lapel pins with portraits depicting either one or both of the Eternal Leaders of North Korea, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. The badges have been common since the late 1960s, and are produced by the Mansudae Art...
Kim Yong-ju (Korean: 김영주; 1920 – December 2021) was a North Korean politician and the younger brother of Kim Il Sung, who ruled North Korea from 1948 to 1994. Under his brother's rule, Kim Yong-ju held key posts including Politburo member in the...
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...
