The supreme leader is the de facto hereditary leader of the Workers' Party of Korea, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Korean People's Army. The title is honorary, given only after dea
Kim Il sung in 1950
Kim Jong il on 24 August 2011
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Kim Jong Il 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
Kim in 2011
Kim Jong Il in 1947, at the age of six
Idealized portrait of Kim Jong Il
North Koreans bowing to the statues of Kim Jong Il and his father, Kim Il Sung, at the Mansu Hill Grand Monument