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North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un appoints Vice Marshal Ri Yong-gil to replace General Park Su-il as the chief of the General Staff Department of the Korean People's Army, and calls for enhancing war preparations, including increased weapons production and more drills.
2023-08-9

North Korea passes a new law formally declaring itself a "nuclear state". The law includes the right of North Korea to use "preemptive" nuclear strikes as Kim Jong-un promises to "never give up" the country's nuclear weapons.
2022-09-9

North and South Korea restore hotlines between the two countries, more than a year after Pyongyang cut ties in June 2020. The move comes after months of correspondence by letters of negotiations between South Korean president Moon Jae-in and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un in an attempt to improve relations between the two countries.
2021-07-27

North Korean state media says that Kim Jong-un has been formally elected as the General Secretary of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, inheriting the title from his late father Kim Jong-il, who died in 2011.
2021-01-10

Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping arrives in North Korea for a two-day state visit with Korean Workers' Party chairman Kim Jong-un.
2019-06-20

United States officials state that Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Mike Pompeo met with North Korea leader Kim Jong-un.
2018-04-17

Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, opens a new terminal at Pyongyang Sunan International Airport.
2015-06-25

Kim Jong-nam, half-brother of new North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, predicts the regime will fall if reforms are not made soon.
2012-01-17

North Korean media name Kim Jong-un – the son and successor of late leader Kim Jong-il – as the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army. [http:--www.straitstimes.com-The-Big-Story-The-Big-Story-1-Story-STIStory_748569.html ("Straits Times")]date=August 2019
2011-12-24

Radio Free Asia reports that North Korea's National Defense Commission held an emergency meeting presided over by Kim Jong-un to compromise the upcoming G20 summit in Seoul, South Korea.
2010-09-22