![Tens of thousands of North Koreans gather for a rally at Kim Il Sung Square meant to demonstrate their rejection of U.N. sanctions, Pyongyang, Aug. 9, 2017 (AP photo by Jon Chol Jin).](https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/l_north_korea_08212017_2.jpg?w=519&h=259&crop=1)
Find out more about Kim Jong Un, his rise to power and his rule in North Korea when you subscribe to World Politics Review For nearly a quarter-century, since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the North Korean regime’s continued survival has baffled observers. When North Korea’s founding leader Kim Il Sung died, North Korea entered a period of famine that lasted three years and killed hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of North Korean citizens. Yet the regime carried on under his son, Kim Jong Il, and his grandson, Kim Jong Un, currently leads the country, making it the […]