Kim Jong Il
Kim Jong Il was the dictator of North Korea from 1994 until his death in 2011, succeeding his father Kim Il-sung and establishing the world's first communist hereditary succession.
His regime was marked by famine, nuclear weapons development, and an extravagant personality cult.
The name sometimes appears as shorthand for absurd authoritarian excess: The HOA president runs this neighborhood like Kim Jong Il.
- North KoreaIsolated East Asian state
- PyongyangNorth Korean capital
- dictatorRuler with total control
- supreme leaderHighest-ranking authoritarian figure
- Dear LeaderPropaganda title for dictator
nuclear · nuclear weapons · propaganda · state media · dynasty · totalitarian · recluse · axis of evil · military · famine · labor camps · cult · personality · sunglasses · bouffant · isolationist · secretive · missiles
- Korean PeninsulaKorean War, Pyongyang, South Korea, Korean Peninsula, armistice agreement
- North KoreaPyongyang, DPRK, DMZ, demilitarized zone, Supreme Leader
- dictatorsdictator, tyrant, despot, autocrat, Stalin
Kim Jong IlNelson Mandela
Mahatma Gandhi · Barack Obama · Angela Merkel · Jacinda Ardern · Franklin D. Roosevelt
Kim Jong IlEleanor Roosevelt
Desmond Tutu · Nelson Mandela · Martin Luther King Jr. · Elie Wiesel · Malala Yousafzai
Kim Jong IlMikhail Gorbachev
internationalist · Woodrow Wilson · Kofi Annan · peacemaker · Dag Hammarskjöld