Kim Jung-un Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers

Trivia quiz questions with answers about Kim Jung-un

Kim Jung-un Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers

Who is Kim Jong-un?
A: Kim Jong-un is a North Korean politician serving as Supreme Leader of North Korea since 2011 and the Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea since 2012.

Kim is the second child of whom?
A: Kim Jong-il (1941–2011) and Ko Yong-hui (1952–2004).

The grandson of Kim Il-sung, the first leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994, he is the first North Korean leader to have been born when?
A: After the country's founding.

From late 2010, Kim Jong-un was viewed as heir apparent to the leadership of the DPRK, and following the elder Kim's death, he was announced as what?
A: The "Great Successor" by North Korean state television.

Kim was promoted to what rank?
A: Marshal of North Korea in the Korean People's Army on 18 July 2012, consolidating his position as the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces .

What two degrees did Kim obtain?
A: One in physics at Kim Il-sung University, and another as an Army officer at the Kim Il-sung Military University.

On 12 December 2013, North Korean news outlets reported that Kim Jong-un had ordered the execution of whom?
A: His uncle Jang Song-thaek due to "treachery".

On 9 March 2014, Kim was elected unopposed to what?
A: The Supreme People's Assembly.

He is widely believed to have ordered the assassination of whom?
A: His half-brother, Kim Jong-nam, in Malaysia in February 2017.

Despite tense relations, North Korea agreed to participate in the 2018 what?
A: Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

Following the Olympics, Kim Jong-un and President Moon Jae-in conducted what?
A: The April 2018 inter-Korean summit.

It was the first time since the end of the Korean War in 1953 that a North Korean leader had what?
A: Entered the South's territory.

On 12 June 2018, Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump met for the 2018 North Korea–United States summit in Singapore, the first-ever talks held between a North Korean leader and a what?
A: A sitting US President, to discuss the North Korean nuclear program.

Scarce information on Kim Jong-un's early life comes from North Korean defectors and people who have claimed to witness him abroad, such as when?
A: During his school attendance in Switzerland.

Some of the information has been conflicting and contradictory, perhaps confusing him with whom?
A: His brother, Kim Jong-chul, who also attended school in Switzerland around the same time.

North Korean authorities and state-run media have stated that Kim's birthdate was when?
A: January 8, 1982, but South Korean intelligence officials believe the actual date is a year later.

It is thought that Kim's official birth year was changed for what reason?
A: Symbolic reasons; 1982 marks 70 years after the birth of his grandfather, Kim Il-sung, and 40 years after the official birth of his father Kim Jong-il.

According to reports first published in Japanese newspapers, he went to school where?
A: In Switzerland near Bern.

First reports claimed he attended the private English-language International School in Gümligen under what name?
A: Under the name "Chol-pak" or "Pak-chol" from 1993 to 1998.

How was he described?
A: As shy, a good student who got along well with his classmates and was a basketball fan.

He was chaperoned by an older student, who was thought to be what?
A: His bodyguard.

The ambassador of North Korea in Switzerland, Ri Chol, had a close relationship with him and acted as a what?
A: A mentor.

One of Pak-un's classmates told reporters that he had told him that he was what?
A: The son of the leader of North Korea.

According to some reports, Kim was described by classmates as a shy child who was awkward with girls and indifferent to political issues, but who distinguished himself in what?
A: Sports and had a fascination with the American National Basketball Association and Michael Jordan.

One friend claimed that he had been shown pictures of Pak-un with whom?
A: Kobe Bryant and Toni Kukoč.

All the children of Kim Jong-il are said to have lived in Switzerland, as well as whom?
A: The mother of the two youngest sons, who lived in Geneva for some time.

Most analysts agree that Kim Jong-un attended Kim Il-sung University, a leading what?
A: Officer-training school in Pyongyang, from 2002 to 2007.

For many years, only one confirmed “what” of him was known to exist outside North Korea?
A: Photograph, apparently taken in the mid-1990s, when he was eleven.

It was only in June 2010, shortly before he was given official posts and publicly introduced to the North Korean people, that more pictures were released of Kim, taken when he was what?
A: Attending school in Switzerland.

The first official image of him as an adult was what?
A: A group photograph released on September 30, 2010, at the end of the party conference that effectively anointed him, in which he is seated in the front row, two places from his father.

This was followed by what?
A: News reel footage of him attending the conference.

Kim Jong-un's eldest half-brother, Kim Jong-nam, had been the favorite to succeed, but reportedly fell out of favor after 2001, when he was caught doing what?
A: Attempting to enter Japan on a fake passport to visit Tokyo Disneyland.

Kim Jong-nam was killed in Malaysia in 2017 by whom?
A: Suspected North Korean agents.

Kim Jong-il's former personal chef, Kenji Fujimoto, revealed details regarding Kim Jong-un, with whom he had a good relationship, stating that he was what?
A: Favored to be his father's successor.

Fujimoto also said that Jong-un was favored by his father over his elder brother, Kim Jong-chul, reasoning that Jong-chul is too what?
A: Feminine in character, while Jong-un is "exactly like his father".

Also, according to Fujimoto, Jong-un does what?
A: Smokes Yves Saint Laurent cigarettes, loves Johnnie Walker whisky and has a Mercedes-Benz 600 luxury sedan.

On 15 January 2009, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported that Kim Jong-il had done what?
A: Appointed Kim Jong-un to be his successor.

On 8 March 2009, BBC News reported that Kim Jong-un was on the ballot for elections to what?
A: The Supreme People's Assembly, the rubber stamp parliament of North Korea.

From 2009, it was understood by foreign diplomatic services that Kim was to succeed his father Kim Jong-il as the head of the what?
A: The Korean Workers' Party and de facto leader of North Korea.

His father had also asked embassy staff abroad to do what?
A: Pledge loyalty to his son.

In June Kim was reported to have visited China secretly to "present himself" to the Chinese leadership, who later warned against what?
A: North Korea conducting another nuclear test.

It is believed by some that Kim Jong-un was involved in the Cheonan sinking and the bombardment of Yeonpyeong to strengthen his what?
A: Military credentials and facilitate a successful transition of power from his father.

Kim Jong-un was made a daejang, the equivalent of a four-star general in the United States, on 27 September 2010, a day ahead of what?
A: A rare Workers' Party of Korea conference in Pyongyang, the first time North Korean media had mentioned him by name and despite him having no previous military experience.

On 28 September 2010, he was named what?
A: Vice chairman of the Central Military Commission and appointed to the Central Committee of the Workers' Party, in an apparent nod to become the successor to Kim Jong-il.

Who died on December 17, 2011?
A: Kim Jong-il.

Despite the elder Kim's plans, what was not immediately clear after his death?
A: Whether Jong-un would in fact take full power, and what his exact role in a new government would be.

Some analysts had predicted that when Kim Jong-il died, Jang Song-thaek would act as regent, as Jong-un was too what?
A: Too inexperienced to immediately lead the country.

In 2013, Forbes named Kim Jong-un the World's what?
A: 46th Most Powerful Person.