Kim Jong Un Kim Jong-un (; , ; born 8 January 1982) is a North Korean politician who has been Supreme Leader of North Korea since 2011 and the leader of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) since 2012. He is a son of Kim Jong-il, who was North Korea's secon ...

(born 8 January 1982) has been the

supreme leader of North Korea The supreme leader () of North Korea is the ''de facto'' paramount leader of the Workers' Party of Korea, the state and the Korean People's Army. The title has not been written into the national constitution as a separate office, but it currentl ...

since the

death of Kim Jong-il 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 ou ...

, the previous leader and his father. On 15 April 2012, the centenary of the birth of North Korea's first leader

Kim Il Sung Kim Il-sung (; , ; born Kim Song-ju, ; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was a North Korean politician and the founder of North Korea, which he ruled from the country's establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. He held the posts of ...

, Kim Jong Un made his first major public speech, entitled '' Let Us March Forward Dynamically Towards Final Victory, Holding Higher the Banner of Songun''. At least two works predate this speech. ''To All the Service Personnel and People Who Deeply Mourned the Death of Comrade'' is dated 26 March. Kim published ''Let Us Brilliantly Accomplish the Revolutionary Cause of Juche, Holding Kim Jong Il in High Esteem as the Eternal General Secretary of Our Party'' shortly before the 11 April Fourth Conference of the Workers' Party of Korea(조선로동당 제4차 대표자회), which conferred on

Kim Jong Il Kim Jong-il (; ; ; born Yuri Irsenovich Kim;, 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 ...

the posthumous title "

Eternal General Secretary The Eternal leaders of North Korea, officially the Eternal leaders of ''Juche'' Korea, refers to the practice of granting posthumous titles to deceased leaders of North Korea. The official title was established by a line in the preamble to the ...

". ''The Great Kim Il Sung Is the Eternal Leader of Our Party and Our People'', also from 2012 and probably ghostwritten, runs through the achievements of both Kim Jong Il and

in a "panegyric" fashion. Kim did not deliver a traditional ''New Year Address'' in 2012 out of respect for Kim Jong Il who had died just a short time ago. He did, however, revive the tradition the following year; Kim Jong Il never spoke in public but chose to have new year's editorials published in newspapers. In an unofficial hierarchy of speeches by the leader of North Korea, these ''New Year Address''es are second to only speeches made at major party events. Kim's ''New Year Address''es, and other works, have largely phased out mentions of the ''

Juche ''Juche'' ( ; ), officially the ''Juche'' idea (), is the state ideology of North Korea and the official ideology of the Workers' Party of Korea. North Korean sources attribute its conceptualization to Kim Il-sung, the country's founder and ...

'' ideology. Two collections have been published: ''Towards Final Victory'' includes works from 2012, and ''For Building a Thriving Nation'', covering the years 2013 and 2014. In North Korea, Kim Jong Un's works are hailed as guidance and are featured in visual propaganda.

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