| The presidents of North Korea | |
| The 1st | Kim Il-sung |
| The 2nd | Kim Jong-il |
| The 3rd | Kim Jong-un |
Kim is the third and youngest son of Kim Jong-il (1941~2011) and his consort Ko Yong-hui. Little is known for certain about Kim Jong-un. Before taking power, Kim had barely been seen in public, and many of the activities of both Kim and his government remain shrouded in secrecy. Even details such as what year he was born, and whether he did indeed attend a Western school under a pseudonym, are difficult to confirm with certainty.
Name: Kim Jong-un
Born: January 8, 1984 (age 32), Pyongyang, North Korea
Height: 1.75 m
Spouse: Ri Sol-ju (m. 2009)
Siblings: Kim Jong-nam, Kim Yo-jong, Kim Jong-chul, Kim Sul-song
Parents: Ko Yong-hui, Kim Jong-il
Children: Kim Ju-ae
Kim was officially declared the supreme leader following the state funeral of his father on 28 December 2011. Kim holds the titles of Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the Central Military Commission, Chairman of the National Defence Commission, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, and presidium member of the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea.[
Kim was promoted to the rank of Marshal of North Korea in the Korean People's Army on 18 July 2012, consolidating his position as the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces and is often referred to as Marshal Kim Jong-un or "the Marshal" by state media.
Cheeky North Korea has sent a nine-page letter to the U.S. demanding it stops the 'hostile nuclear threats' towards the rogue state and its despotic leader.
The missive sets out what it now expects from American and is being seen by many in Washington as a direct message to new President-elect Donald Trump.
North Korea has kept pretty silent about Trump’s shock victory in the November 8 election but it has now laid out what it wants of the incoming US administration.
The statement, carried by the official Korea Central News Agency, claims Barack Obama’s administration went out of it’s way to “overthrow” Kim Jong Un and his country.
It also accused Obama of “constantly heaping malicious slander and criticism on the DPRK” and said his government pursued an “aggressive and heinous ‘strategic suffocation’ policy”.
In the memo, the North argued that in the five years since the death of its late leader Kim Jong-il, the country has engaged in an all-out confrontation with the US to cope with Washington’s ever-growing hostile intent and nuclear threats.
“The anachronistic hostile policy and nuclear threat that the US has enforced with unprecedented recklessness against the DPRK (North Korea) have only provoked its just and righteous countermeasures for self-defense”, the memorandum read.
Chinese websites are censoring a phrase meaning "Kim Fatty the Third", a nickname widely used to disparage the North Korean leader, after officials from his country repotedly conveyed their displeasure in a meeting with Chinese counterparts.
Searches for the Chinese words "Jin San Pang" on the search engine Baidu and microblogging platform Weibo returned no results this week.
The nickname pokes fun at Kim Jong-un's girth and his status as the third generation of the Kim family to rule the world's only hereditary communist dynasty. It's expecially popular among young, irreverent Chinese who tend to look down on their country's would-be ally.
Relations between china and North Korea have been strained by Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme, which China has condemned along with South Korea, Japan, the United States and Russia. But Beijing continues to support the Kim regime with limited trade and diplomatic backing.
North Korean officials, fearing that Kim would find out about the nickname, lodged a formal request with China recently to prohibit names disparaging Kim from appearing in the media, according to Hong Kong newspaper reports.
The Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, Geng Shuang, said on Wednesday that reports of the banning of Jin San Pang did not "comply with facts".
"The Chinese government stays committed to building a healthy and civilised environment of opinions," he added. "We diapprove of referring to the leader of any country with insulting and mocking remarks."
Kim Fatty the Third is such a widely used term in China that it is sometimes suggested by auto-complete algorithms on web portals such as Baidu, China's leading search engine. While searches for Jin San Pang returned no results this week, Baidu left untouched results for other versions of the nickname, such as Kim Fat Fat Fat.
The Beijing-based company has typically said that its policy is to provide accurate search results while also complying with Chinese regulations.