Kim Jong-un is, as of 2020, the leader of North Korea. The son of Kim Jong-il and the grandson of Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-un rose to power in 2011 following his father’s death. Considered by many an unlikely choice to lead North Korea, Kim Jong-un has, since his ascent to power, attempted incessantly to remind the world of North Korea’s growing nuclear and technology capabilities through a series of missile launches, nuclear tests, and cyberattacks. Kim Jong-un’s eccentric behavior and almost childlike investment in renovating North Korea’s amusement parks even as his people starve has earned him a strange reputation—yet his ruthless dispatching of many of his own family members and his father’s former political allies has marked him as a leader with as much desperation and as little mercy as his predecessors in the Kim dynasty.
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Kim Jong-un Character Timeline in Nothing to Envy
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Epilogue
...period ensued once again; once again, people took to the streets to wail and scream. Kim Jong-un , an unlikely choice to ascend to the status of Great Leader as Kim Jong-il’s...
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Kim Jong-un looked, for a time, like a new kind of leader: he and his wife appeared...
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Kim Jong-un ’s strange behavior grew more erratic over the years. In December 2013, he had his...
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Though Kim Jong-un ’s antics since his rise to power have often been strange or ludicrous, North Korea’s...
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...shelter. After interviewing recent defectors as late as 2012 and 2013, she writes, she believes Kim Jong-un is squandering his people’s hopes and goodwill by doing frivolous things like building up theme...
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