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Kim Jong-il (also written as Kim Jong Il) (born February 16, 1941, Vyatskoye, Soviet Union; official biographies state February 16, 1942, Baeku Mountain, Japanese Korea) is the leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. He is the Chairman of the National Defense Commission, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, and General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (the ruling party since 1948). He succeeded his father Kim Il-sung, founder of North Korea, who died in 1994, and commands the fourth largest standing army in the world. North Korea officially refers to him as the "Dear Leader".

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  • Tiger Woods, move over; this Asian leader claims to have shot 11 holes-in-one the first time he played golf
  • In 2006 his Taepodong missile test had us wondering about looking for fallout shelters
  • Though his country is only the size of Pennsylvania, this leader's bellicose rhetoric keeps it in the news
  • In August 2009 former President Clinton helped win the release of 2 journalists after meeting with this N. Korean leader
  • He struggled to consolidate power in North Korea after succeeding his father, Kim Il Sung, in 1994
  • This man assumed his father's leadership of North Korea in 1994
  • This Asian leader claims to have been born in 1942 on sacred Paektu Mountain, under a double rainbow
  • No. 2 is this man of North Korea, which had the worst score on political rights & civil liberties for 34 straight years
  • The headline of this man's article was "Dear Leader Goes Nuclear"

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