Kim Jong-il

Kim Jong-il

Kim Jong-il (; Korean: 김정일; Korean pronunciation: [kim.dzɔŋ.il]; born Yuri Irsenovich Kim (Russian: Юрий Ирсенович Ким); 16 February 1941 – 17 December 2011) was a North Korean politician who was the second supreme leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011. He led North Korea from the 1994 death of his father Kim Il-sung, the first Supreme Leader, until his own death in 2011, when he was succeeded by his son, Kim Jong-un. In the early 1980s, Kim had become the heir apparent for the leadership of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and assumed important posts in the party and army organs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kim Jong-il has received more than 10,397,207 page views. His biography is available in 108 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 106 in 2019). Kim Jong-il is the 114th most popular politician (up from 120th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Russia (up from 21st in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Politician.

Kim Jong-il is most famous for being the leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011. He was also the father of Kim Jong-un, who is the current leader of North Korea.