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In the early s, Kim had become the heir apparent for the leadership of North Korea, thus being established the Kim dynasty , and he assumed important posts in party and army organizations.

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Kim ruled North Korea as a repressive and totalitarian dictatorship. While the famine had ended by the late s, food scarcity continued to be a problem throughout his tenure. Kim strengthened the role of the military by his Songun "military-first" policies, making the army the central organizer of civil society. Kim's rule also saw tentative economic reforms, including the opening of the Kaesong Industrial Park in The most common colloquial title given to Kim during his lifetime was "Dear Leader" to distinguish him from his father Kim Il Sung, the "Great Leader".

Following Kim's failure to appear at important public events in , foreign observers assumed that Kim had either fallen seriously ill or died. On 19 December , the North Korean government announced that he had died two days earlier, whereupon his third son, Kim Jong Un, was promoted to a senior position in the ruling WPK and succeeded him.

The family moved into a former Japanese officer's mansion in Pyongyang, with a garden and pool.

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Kim's brother drowned there in According to his official biography, Kim completed the course of general education between September and August He attended Primary School No. Throughout his schooling, Kim was involved in politics. In September , he became vice-chairman of his middle school's DYL branch the chairman had to be a teacher.

He pursued a programme of anti-factionalism and attempted to encourage greater ideological education among his classmates. Kim is also said to have received English language education in Malta in the early s [ 25 ] [ 26 ] on his infrequent holidays there as a guest of Prime Minister Dom Mintoff. The elder Kim had meanwhile remarried and had another son, Kim Pyong Il.