![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/profile-north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/95387046_a6a0d699-62f8-4eec-9ec4-e8d0047cb3a3.jpg&description=Media caption, Who is North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un?When Kim Jong-un took control of North Korea at just 27, the world knew little about him. The sombre, subdued and rounded figure that was often the subject of international ridicule in those early days has now made North Korea a global threat in a way his father Kim Jong-il never did. Kim Jong-un also did what no previous North Korean leader could - bring a sitting American president to the negotiating table.But historic talks with the former US President Donald Trump and early moves to improve relations with the South led nowhere eventually. Pyongyang's relationship with Washington and Seoul has since soured and turned increasingly volatile. In November, the North fired at least 23 missiles, the most it has ever launched in a day, including one that landed less than 60km off the South's city of Sokcho - the closest a North Korean missile has come to South Korea's territorial waters. Under Kim Jong-un, in 2022 alone, Pyongyang tested a record number of missiles, aimed two ballistic missiles over Japan, and has continued preparing for a seventh nuclear - one that analysts expect despite dire warnings from the US, South Korea and Japan. Soon after Kim Jong-un, the youngest son of Kim Jong-il and his third wife Ko Yong-hui, was born in 1983 or 1984, a state-sanctioned personality cult swung into action. Mythology claimed that the Kims were a semi-divine dynasty who had a close affinity with the near-sacred Mount Paektu that sits on the Korean-Chinese border. By that logic, the young Kim would be naturally endowed with heroic qualities and preternatural strength. In fact when he was announced as the leader in 2011, the pronouncement made clear that he "inherits the ideology, leadership, courage and audacity of [his father] Comrade Kim Jong-il".Audacity was not an inappropriate word to use: within five years of coming to power, he had executed his uncle, is widely believed to have ordered the assassination of his hal){kind=link}
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Who is North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un?
When Kim Jong-un took control of North Korea at just 27, the world knew little about him.
The sombre, subdued and rounded figure that was often the subject of international ridicule in those early days has now made North Korea a global threat in a way his father Kim Jong-il never did.
Kim Jong-un also did what no previous North Korean leader could – bring a sitting American president to the negotiating table.