Kim Jong Un And His Father

In six years the leader purged senior officials and relatives allegedly plotting to overthrow him and his regime.

Kim jong un and his father. It has been claimed kim jong un who became supreme leader in 2011 following the death of his father kim jong il has been relying on implicitly mandatory donations from residents to cover. Kim had his uncle executed according to state media and the united states accused his government of using the chemical warfare agent vx assassinate his half brother kim jong nam in 2017 an. He took over control of the country on the death of his own father kim il sung who founded. In a significant development huge portraits of kim s grandfather and father kim il sung and kim jong il were suddenly removed from kim il sung square in north korea s pyongyang sparking rumours over the heatlh of north korean leader kim jong un.

Speaking to al jazeera last year he said kim jong un didn t have the same ties to his family as his father and grandfather did which explained why he was the first in the line to ever. Seoul march 21 upi kim jong un is less forgiving than his father or biological grandfather despite a possible change of perception in south korea of the north korean leader a defector. Kim jong un also took his father s post as chairman of the central military commission as well as his father s old seat on the politburo presidium. Kim jong il served as leader of north korea from july 8 1994 until his death on december 17 2011.

Kim jong un was kept shrouded in secrecy until right before his father north korean dictator kim jong il died. According to bbc kim first appeared in public in 2010 not long before his dad died.