the kim family came to power in december 1972.
the kim family came to power in december 1972.
when did the kim family come to power?
december 1972
bullet::::- moody awori former vice president.









































bullet::::- aggrey awori, formerly member of parliament and minister in uganda.









































section::::kiribati.









































the tong family









































bullet::::- anote tong (president of kiribati, 2003– )









































bullet::::- harry tong (brother of anote tong; leader, national progressive party)









































section::::korea, north.









































the kim family (1948–present)









































bullet::::- kim il-sung (leader of north korea, 1948–1994), founder of north korea









































bullet::::- kim jong-il (leader of north korea, 1994–2011), son of kim il-sung









































bullet::::- kim jong-un (leader of north korea, 2011–present), grandson of kim il-sung









































other members of kim family









































bullet::::- kim jong-nam (first son of kim jong-il)
list of political families
kim il-sung and his guerilla faction had purged the wpk of its opposing factions during the 1950s and the 1960s, to the dismay of both the cpc and the cpsu. the domestic faction was the first to go (in 1953–55), followed by the yan'an faction in 1957–58 and the soviet koreans (along with anyone else deemed unfaithful to the wpk leadership) in the 1957–62 purge. according to historian andrei lankov, "kim il-sung had become not only supreme, but also the omnipotent ruler of north korea—no longer merely 'first amongst equals', as had been the case in the late 1940s". after purging his wpk opposition, kim il-sung consolidated his power base with nepotism and hereditary succession in the kim family and the guerilla faction. beginning in the late 1980s, "a high (and increasing) proportion of north korean high officials have been sons of high officials." since the 1960s, kim il-sung had appointed family members to positions of power. by the early 1990s, a number of leading national offices were held by people in his family: kang song-san (premier of the administrative council and member of the wpk secretariat), pak song-chol (vice president), hwang jang-yop and kim chung-rin (members of the wpk secretariat), kim yong-sun (head of the wpk international department and member of the wpk secretariat), kang hui-won (secretary of the wpk pyongyang municipal committee and deputy premier of the administrative council), kim tal-hyon (minister of foreign trade), kim chan-ju (minister of agriculture and deputy chairman of the administrative council) and yang hyong-sop (president of the academy of social sciences and chairman of the supreme people's assembly). these individuals were appointed solely because of their ties to the kim family, and presumably retain their positions as long as the kim family controls the wpk and the country. the reason for kim's support of nepotism (his own and that of the guerrilla faction) can be explained by the fact that he did not want the party bureaucracy to threaten his—and his son's—rule as it did in other socialist states.
workers' party of korea