Childhood and youth
The biography of Kim Jong-un consists of complete mystery. According to official information, the leader of the DPRK was born on January 8, 1982 in Pyongyang, but intelligence sources claim that Jong-un is a couple of years younger and was born no earlier than 1984. Due to uncertainty regarding the birth dates of the head of state, nothing is known about his zodiac sign.
The parents of the future politician were North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and the ruler’s favorite, ballerina Ko Yong Hee. Jong-un became the second potential heir to his father - Jong-il's first-born was Jong-nam, who was given birth to the head of the DPRK by actress Song Hye-rim, like Jong-un's mother, who was not officially married to the leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Kim Jong-un's education, like his childhood life, is reliably hidden from society. It is known that at an early age, Jong-un studied at an international school in Switzerland, but the leadership of the educational institution assures that the DPRK leader did not cross the threshold of this school. According to North Korean intelligence services, as a child, Jong-un received knowledge individually at home and did not receive a single diploma from European universities.
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Kim Jong-un as a child and his family
Kim Jong-un appeared on the political horizon of the DPRK in 2008, when there were rumors about the fatal illness of his father Jong Il, who led the country at that time. Then the throne was prophesied to the adviser to the North Korean leader, Chas Song Thaek, who at that time actually held the governing apparatus of the DPRK in his hands and was Kim Jong Il’s brother-in-law.
However, everything happened differently - thanks to his mother, who back in 2003 convinced the entire leadership of the republic that Jong Un was his father’s favorite son and his only successor, in 2009 it was he who became the leader of the race for the post of leader of the DPRK.
Shortly before his father's death, Kim Jong-un received the title "Brilliant Comrade" and was appointed head of the North Korean State Security Service. On November 24, 2011, he was officially proclaimed supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, and a few days later he was elected chairman of the country's ruling Workers' Party of Korea.
The first time after his appointment as leader of the DPRK, Kim Jong-un appeared in public only in April 2012 during a parade dedicated to the centenary of his grandfather Kim Il Sung.
Personal life
The personal life of Kim Jong-un, like his entire biography, has no officially confirmed data. According to media reports, the DPRK leader has been married to dancer Ri Sol Ju since 2009. According to various information, she comes from the family of a doctor or military officer. Sol Ju received her education in Korea and also studied arts in China.
Some sources claim that the wife gave the North Korean leader three children, the first of whom was presumably born in 2010, and the second in 2012. The third child appeared in the family in 2017. A year later, Lee Sol-ju officially received the title “Dear First Lady.”
Kim Jong-un with his wife with Ri Sol-ju
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Kim Jong-un and his wife Lee Sol-ju
Despite the fact that the leader of Korea appears everywhere with his wife, he is also credited with relationships with other women. Thus, singer Hyun Song Wol, whom he allegedly sentenced to death in 2013, was considered Kim Jong-un’s mistress for a long time.
According to rumors, the artist and her colleagues in the female ensemble “Moranbong” starred in porn films and kept the Bible at home, which is strictly prohibited in North Korea. Nevertheless, it was Hyon Song Wol who led the DPRK delegation in 2021 during the country’s national team’s trip to the Olympics in South Korea.
Policy
The policies of the youngest North Korean leader, who came to power at the age of 26, are filled with sheer uncompromisingness and audacity.
Kim Jong-un is not particularly humane in the internal politics of the DPRK. During his reign, he executed more than 70 people, which became a record among all the rulers of the country. The leader likes to organize public executions of officials who, in his opinion, are carrying out activities against him.
Accusations of corruption were a frequent reason for executions. Some foreign media even admire Kim Jong-un's policies, calling on the authorities of their own countries to effectively fight corrupt officials.
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Among those killed at the hands of Jong-un is even his uncle, whom the young leader accused of treason and plotting a coup. The North Korean leader also dealt with the accomplices of the “traitors to the motherland.” For example, Kim Jong-un personally shot Defense Minister Hyun Yong Chol from an anti-aircraft gun.
At the same time, Kim Jong-un is actively engaged in reforms in the DPRK, in which he has achieved considerable success. His achievements included closing camps for political prisoners, changing the so-called serfdom, as a result of which people had the opportunity to create agricultural production units from several families, rather than from entire collective farms, and to give the leader only part of their harvest, and not all, as was earlier.
Kim Jong-un also decentralized industry in the DPRK, transferring “many” powers to enterprise directors. From now on, managers can hire their own staff, set their salaries and choose the direction for marketing their products.
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Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump
In addition, the North Korean leader managed to maintain “friendship” with his practically only strategic partner - China, which is North Korea’s main trading partner.
As a result of Kim Jong-un's reforms, the standard of living of citizens increased, the introduction of new technologies and the development of the country's economy began.
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At the pinnacle of power
Kim Jong-un took over North Korea in 2011 immediately after his father's death. At the time he took over as ruler, he was only 28 years old.
No one knows for sure the exact amount of the president's personal wealth, but it is believed that he has access to $5 billion. Rumor has it that much of it comes from illegal activities such as bank hacking, counterfeiting, and illegal drug and gun sales. Before Kim took office, the head of the country's annual spending on luxury goods was about $300 million. The current leader spends more than 600 million dollars a year on his desires. Meanwhile, most of the North Korean population lives below the poverty line and people struggle to make ends meet. In light of this fact, it becomes very interesting what exactly Kim Jong-un spends such huge money on.
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Nuclear program
The main business of the life of the leader of the DPRK was the creation of powerful nuclear weapons, with the help of which Kim Jong-un intends to turn his enemies into radioactive ash. At the same time, in his native country, the leader is considered a great reformer who changed people’s lives for the better by providing the people with rights and freedoms that Koreans had never even dreamed of before.
Kim Jong-un regularly poses a loud challenge to the whole world, proving his power with the “forbidden” nuclear method. Bypassing all UN Security Council resolutions, Jong-un continues his father’s work and develops the country’s nuclear potential, threatening to destroy anyone who tries to stand in his way.
His most high-profile actions during his reign were the DPRK’s entry into the “club of space powers” in 2012, the third nuclear test in North Korean history in 2013, and the release of an artificial satellite into Earth orbit, which, as the North Korean leader promises, Kim Jong-un will do all of The world has been brought to the brink of nuclear war.
The ruler regularly conducts horrific tests that are not regulated by international law. He prioritizes the development of North Korean nuclear weapons of mass destruction, despite the strict sanctions imposed against the DPRK by all the leading countries of the world.
Presumably, in 2021, a nuclear explosion occurred in North Korea during a hydrogen bomb test. Seismological stations indirectly recorded it from an earthquake of magnitude 5.1.
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Kim Jong-un and the missile
According to the North Korean leader, a nuclear program is the only way for a small country like North Korea, which also does not develop vast reserves of expensive minerals, to achieve recognition of its own interests on the world stage. At the same time, the DPRK leader claims that he is going to use nuclear potential only in the event of an attack on North Korea.
Although North Korea's nuclear program has become the butt of jokes, it has already begun to raise concerns among other nuclear powers. Kim Jong-un said that North Korea has created warheads capable of reaching distant targets using long-range missiles.
Experts in the United States believe that this statement may already be true, although the press does not have reliable information about the new tests. Western experts also believe that Pyongyang’s statement that the country has already created missiles capable of reaching the continental United States is true.
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In May of the same year, North Korea announced an assassination attempt on its leader. The CIA and the South Korean National Intelligence Service hired a North Korean logger working in Russia to kill Kim Jong-un with a “biochemical weapon,” the Koreans say. This weapon is described as both radioactive and poisonous at the same time.
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Kim Jong-un now
In November 2021, US President Donald Trump wrote a series of tweets following his participation in the APEC summit in Vietnam dedicated to Kim Jong-un.
Trump complained that at the meeting the North Korean leader called his American colleague names, calling him old, although Donald himself did not allow himself insults, although he could call the Korean small and fat (Kim Jong-un is 175 cm tall and weighs 130 kg). At the same time, the media recalled that Trump had repeatedly insulted Kim Jong-un, calling him crazy and a suicidal astronaut.
Kim Jong-un's uncompromising nature and abundance of threats and statements have made the North Korean leader the butt of jokes in other countries. The Internet is filled with memes with Kim Jong-un, residents of the Comedy Club wrote a number about the meeting of the North Korean dictator with Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel, and Seth Rogen and James Franco starred in the comedy film The Interview, where Kim Jong-un is declared the main villain.
In 2021, the popular Russian group Little Big dedicated the track Lolly Bomb to the Korean leader. According to the plot of the video, a dictator in love with a nuclear bomb is trying to improve relations with her. Kim Jong-un invites her on dates, goes shopping with her. The President even hugs and kisses the rocket. His double starred as Jong-un.
Not only Russian artists create parodies of the North Korean leader. In 2014, a video appeared on the Internet in which Kim Jong-un dances and fights to a popular Chinese song. The video caused outrage on the Korean side.
Real estate
Kim is the owner of at least 17 palaces located throughout North Korea, but he spends most of the year at the Rensong residence, which is located in the city of Pyongyang. There is a running track, a huge luxurious swimming pool, stables and even a racing track. The leader of the DPRK also owns a private luxury island, where he goes if he wants privacy.
Kim Jin-un loves to travel and uses a variety of vehicles for this purpose.
Children from North Korea, while studying the biography of their president, learn interesting facts about him while still at school. Kim learned to drive cars when he was just three years old. This became one of his main hobbies in life. Now the leader has more than 100 luxury cars in his collection, and Mercedes Benz is his favorite car brand. It is known that the most expensive of them was custom-made from heavy-duty armor to protect Kim during his travels. Its cost at one time was $1.7 million. For sea travel, the President uses a huge and luxurious personal yacht worth $8 million.
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The North Korean leader also spends a lot of time in the air. Kim flies on her private jet.
Its interior is known to consist of white leather sofas.
For his convenience, the president built five airstrips near his palaces.
Health
It is known that Jong-un already began to have health problems in his youth, which were caused by his excess weight. The medical card lists diabetes and hypertension among the North Korean leader's chronic diseases.
Despite his illnesses, Kim Jong-un tries to monitor his health whenever possible. In 2021, he lost weight and began to look slimmer. A year later, the Internet played up this fact, presenting the dictator in the photo as having lost a lot of weight.
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Kim Jong-un is thin
Since September 2021, North Korea has not started new ballistic missile tests, explaining this by health problems of the leader. In addition, in 2014, the leader already disappeared from the press for 6 weeks. A number of publications have put forward theories about the seriousness of Kim Jong-un's illness and even suggested that he was killed by an unknown "biochemical weapon" that was reported in May.
In 2021, information appeared that the head of North Korea was in serious condition after heart surgery. Some media reported that Jong-un was in a coma, while other sources of information even provided information that the North Korean leader had died.
The suspected cause of death was coronavirus. Representatives of the DPRK denied journalists' speculations that Kim was dead. Official sources reported that the leader is now alive and in a safe place.
Kim Jong-un now
North Korea, like other countries, adheres to quarantine due to the spread of coronavirus. The country's political leader himself, according to media reports, was hiding in the resort town of Wonsan, where his residence is located. It was at the railway station of the village that Kim Jong-un’s armored train was spotted by US satellites.
The head of the DPRK supported Moon Jae-in, the leader of South Korea, expressing confidence that their countries will be able to overcome the current situation without losses. In his response letter, the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan thanked his colleague.
In April 2021, the social networks Instagram and Twitter received information about the first person shot due to coronavirus. It was a North Korean official who ignored the quarantine conditions. The man visited a public bath, after which he was arrested.
Amid talk of the death of Kim Jong-un, speculation has emerged about the successor to the DPRK leader. He is seen as the younger sister of the head of state, Kim Yo Jong, who holds the position of first deputy director of the propaganda and agitation department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Food preferences
Kim is indifferent to local inexpensive alcohol. He prefers to drink imported high-quality liqueurs and especially whiskey and cognac. One bottle of Hennessy costs him more than $2,000.
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When it comes to food, the DPRK leader also makes a choice in favor of imports and exotics. His usual orders might include Iranian caviar, Chinese melon or beef from Japan. The estimated annual cost of food for Kim Jong-un for a year is in the millions.
