Today In History: 16 February 1941 North Korean Politician Leader Kim Jong II was Born
The Politician leader of North Korean Kim Jong II also spelled Kim Chong II he was born on this day 16 February 1941 living in Siberia, Russia, U.S.S.
He is the North Korean politician and he’s the son of the former North Korean premier and (communist) Korean Workers’ Party (KWP) chairman Kim II Sung, and successor to his father as ruler (1994–2011) of North Korea.
Kim Jong Il
It produced works celebrating socialist values, Kim Il-Sung and his national policy of self-reliance (juche), and, later, Kim Jong Il himself and his “military first” (sŏngun chŏngch’i) policy. As part of his desire to create better films, in the late 1970s the younger Kim had a South Korean film director, Shin Sang-Ok, and his wife, actress Choi Eun-Hee, abducted to the North, where they were pressed into service until their 1986 escape.
After becoming North Korea’s leader, and with his country facing a struggling economy and a famine, Kim made moves toward amending North Korea’s long-standing policy of isolationism. Throughout the late 1990s and early 21st century, Kim sought to improve ties with a number of countries. In addition, he appeared to be abiding by the terms of a 1994 agreement (called the Agreed Framework) with the United States in which North Korea would dismantle its own nuclear program in return for arranging for the construction by an outside party of two nuclear reactors capable of producing electric power. South Korea was the primary contractor on the project.
Kim halted testing of a long-range missile in 1999 after the United States agreed to ease its economic sanctions against North Korea, and in June 2000 Kim met with South Korean leader Kim Dae- Jung. In what was the first summit between leaders of the two countries, an agreement was reached to take steps toward reunification. Ties were also established with Australia and Italy.
At the same time, however, the Agreed Framework began falling apart in the face of North Korea’s demonstrated reluctance to adhere to its terms. Relations with the United States deteriorated greatly in 2002, after U.S. Pres. George W. Bush characterized Kim’s regime (along with Iran and Iraq) as part of an “axis of evil.”
In January 2003 Kim announced that North Korea was pulling out of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and planning to develop nuclear weapons.
North Korea’s nuclear status remained an international issue.
Kim’s regime was widely seen as using it as a negotiating point to secure economic aid and to deter the escalation of tensions with South Korea, which were ongoing. In October 2006 the country announced that it had conducted an underground test of such a weapon.
Talks were suspended for several years, but another deal was struck in 2007, the verification of North Korea’s compliance however remained unsettled.
The December 2007 election of Lee Myung-Bak as South Korean president began another deterioration in inter-Korean relations as Lee took a harder line with his North Korean counterpart.
Over the next few years North Korea conducted occasional weapons tests, including a second underground nuclear test in May 2009.
In 2008 speculation began that Kim’s health was deteriorating; after his absence from public view for several months, it was suspected that he had suffered a stroke.
The following year Kim and the North Korean political establishment began a series of moves apparently toward designating Kim’s youngest son, Kim Jong-Un, as his successor.
North Korean state media announced on December 19, 2011, that Kim had died on a train two days earlier.
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