Kim Jong-un, North Korea's Supreme Leader, was born in Pyongyang, North Korea, in 1983.
Kim Jong-un, a North Korean politician, was born on January 8, 1982 or 1983. He has been the Supreme Leader of North Korea since 2011 and the leader of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) since 2012. He is the second child of Kim Jong-il and Ko Yong-hui, who served as North Korea's second supreme leader from 1994 until 2011. He is the grandson of Kim Il-sung, who served as North Korea's founder and first supreme leader from 1948 until his death in 1994.
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