Kim Dae-jung was a South Korean politician and activist who served as the 8th president of South Korea from 1998 to 2003.
Kim Jong Il was a North Korean politician who was the second supreme leader of North Korea. He led North Korea from the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994 until his own death in 2011,when he was succeeded by his son,Kim Jong Un. Afterwards,Kim Jong Il was declared Eternal General Secretary of the WPK.
Korean Air Flight 858 was a scheduled international passenger flight between Baghdad,Iraq,and Seoul,South Korea. On 29 November 1987,the aircraft flying that route exploded in mid-air upon the detonation of a bomb planted inside an overhead storage bin in the airplane's passenger cabin by two North Korean agents.
Kim Jong-nam was the eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. From roughly 1994 to 2001,he was considered the heir apparent to his father. He was thought to have fallen out of favour after embarrassing the regime in 2001 with a failed attempt to visit Tokyo Disneyland with a false passport,although Kim himself said his loss of favour had been due to advocating reform.
Team America:World Police is a 2004 puppetry comedy film directed by Trey Parker,with a screenplay written by Parker,Matt Stone,and Pam Brady. Parker and Stone also star alongside Kristen Miller,Masasa Moyo,Daran Norris,Phil Hendrie,Maurice LaMarche,Jeremy Shada,and Fred Tatasciore. A satire of action film archetypes,American militarism,and the foreign policy of the United States,the film follows the titular international counterterrorism force,who recruit a Broadway actor to assist in saving the world from Kim Jong Il and his coalition of Islamic terrorists and liberal Hollywood actors.
Choi Min-sik is a South Korean actor. Best known for his role in Oldboy (2003),the performance was critically acclaimed and won him the Best Actor prize at the 40th Baeksang Art Awards,the 24th Blue Dragon Awards,and the 41st Grand Bell Awards. His other notable works include Shiri (1999),Lady Vengeance (2005),I Saw the Devil (2010),Nameless Gangster:Rules of the Time (2012),New World (2013) and The Admiral:Roaring Currents (2014),which became the highest-grossing film in South Korea. For his performance in the latter,he won the Grand Prize at the 51st Baeksang Arts Awards.
Ri Myung-hun,also known as Michael Ri after his favorite basketball player Michael Jordan,is a North Korean former basketball player. At a height of 236 cm and a weight of 128 kg (282 lb),he is believed to be the tallest person in North Korea.
Shin Sang-ok was a South Korean filmmaker with more than 100 producer and 70 director credits to his name. His best-known films were made in the 1950s and 60s,many of them collaborations with his wife Choi Eun-hee,when he was known as "The Prince of South Korean Cinema". He received posthumously the Gold Crown Cultural Medal,the country's top honor for an artist.
Reading is a popular pastime in North Korea,where literacy and books enjoy a high cultural standing,elevated by the regime's efforts to disseminate propaganda as texts. Because of this,writers are held in high prestige.
Bae Eun-sik is a resident of Incheon,South Korea who has acted as North Korean leader Kim Jong-il in movies,television shows,and commercials.
Kenji Fujimoto is a Japanese chef who was the personal sushi chef of former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il from 1988 to 2001. Fujimoto,who uses a pseudonym and whose real name is not public knowledge,published a memoir in 2003 entitled I was Kim Jong-il's Cook,detailing many of his experiences with Kim Jong Il. The veracity of his claims were initially doubted by skeptics. However,Fujimoto correctly predicted that Kim Jong Un would be appointed as his father's successor as Supreme Leader instead of Kim Jong-nam or Kim Jong-chul,which was contrary to the prevailing consensus of experts on North Korean politics. Fujimoto's prediction proved true in December 2011.
The death of Kim Jong Il was reported by North Korean state television news on 19 December 2011. The presenter Ri Chun-hee announced that he had died on 17 December at 8:30 am of a massive heart attack while travelling by train to an area outside Pyongyang. Reportedly,he had received medical treatment for cardiac and cerebrovascular diseases,and during the trip,Kim was said to have had an "advanced acute myocardial infarction,complicated with a serious heart shock". However,it was reported in December 2012 by South Korean media that the heart attack had instead occurred in a fit of rage over construction faults in a crucial power plant project at Huichon in Chagang Province.
Kim Il Sung died of a sudden heart attack on the early morning of 8 July 1994 at age 82. North Korea's government did not report the death for more than 34 hours after it occurred. An official mourning period was declared from 8–17 July,during which the national flag was flown at half mast throughout the country,and all forms of amusement and dancing were prohibited.
Hyon Song-wol is a North Korean singer,band leader,and politician. She is the leader of the Moranbong Band and of the Samjiyon Orchestra. She was formerly a featured vocalist for the Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble in the early 2000s,a pop group which found fame in North Korea in the late 1980s and 1990s. She has been a member in the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea since 2017.
Supreme Guard Command is the personal bodyguard force tasked with the protection of North Korea's ruling Kim family. The current Supreme Guard commander is General Yun Jong-rin.
Jang Jin-sung is the pseudonym of a North Korean poet and government official who defected to South Korea. He had worked as a psychological warfare officer within the United Front Department of the Korean Workers' Party. Jang specifically worked within the United Front Department Section 5 (Literature),Division 19 (Poetry) of Office 101. Office 101 created propaganda intended to encourage South Korean sympathy for North Korea. One of Jang's job duties was to create poetry under a South Korean pseudonym Kim Kyong-min and in a South Korean style. His poetry was intended for distribution within South Korea. A South Korean court has sentenced him to six months in prison,after finding him guilty of a sexual crime against a former female coworker.
Park Yong-woo is a South Korean actor.
The Kim family,also known as the Kim dynasty or the Mount Paektu bloodline in the ideological discourse of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK),is a three-generation lineage of North Korean leadership,descending from the country's founder and first leader,Kim Il Sung. The patriarch came to rule the north in 1948,after the end of Japanese rule split the region in 1945. He began the Korean War in 1950,in a failed attempt to reunify the Korean Peninsula. In the 1980s,Kim Il Sung developed a cult of personality closely tied to the North Korean state philosophy of Juche. Following his death in 1994,Kim Il Sung's role as supreme leader was passed on to his son Kim Jong Il,and then to his grandson Kim Jong Un. All three men have served as leaders of the WPK and have exercised absolute control over North Korea since the state's establishment in 1948.
Ji Seong-ho is a South Korean politician who is a member of the National Assembly as a member of the People Power Party (PPP). Born in North Hamyong,North Korea,in 1982,he defected to South Korea in 2006,where he worked to raise awareness about the situation in North Korea and to help fellow defectors. He was elected as a member of the National Assembly in the 2020 South Korean legislative election.
Rage is a book by the American journalist Bob Woodward about the presidency of Donald Trump,published on September 15,2020,by Simon &Schuster. The book is largely critical of Trump,focusing on his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic,his strained relationship with military brass and high-level officials such as Jim Mattis and Dan Coats,his handling of racial unrest,and his relationships with the leaders of Russia and North Korea.
