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Jong Un Kim
Kim Jong Un became the supreme leader of North Korea on December 17, 2011, following the death of his father Kim Jong Il. He was born in Pyongyang on January 8, 1984, and attended boarding school in Switzerland under the alias Pak Un. As leader, he has overseen nuclear missile programs and met with US President Donald Trump in Singapore in 2018 and at the DMZ in 2019.