| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Solo Exhibitions | | 2023 | | Gye Hang Museum Incheon, Korea "Invitational Solo Exhibition" | | Arundel Center Annapolis, MD "Returned Heroes" | | Goodwin House Alexandria, VA "Island" | | | | 2022 | | Paris Koh Fine Arts Fort Lee, NJ "Living Organism" | | Bank of Hope New York, NY "Island" | | MC3, Maryland Conference and Culture Center Annapolis, MD "Island" | | | | 2021 | | Maryland Federation of Art Annapolis, MD "Born Heroes" | | | | 2019 | | Carroll Museum Baltimore, MD "Camouflage" | | Rachel M Schlesinger Concert Hall & Art Center, Northern Virginia Community College Alexandria, VA "The One" | | Aurora Hills Community Center/Library Arlington, VA "Sanctuary" | | | | 2018 | | Annapolis City Hall Annapolis, MD "The new homeland" | | Tong Lau Space Artist Residency Project, Hong Kong: love it! (Two-person) Tong Lau • Kim Il SungLeader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994 In this Korean name, the family name is Kim. Eternal President Kim Il Sung |
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Official portrait, 1966 | |
In office 12 October 1966 – 8 July 1994 | | Secretary |
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| Preceded by | Himself (as Chairman) |
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| Succeeded by | Kim Jong Il |
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In office 28 December 1972 – 8 July 1994 | | Premier |
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| Vice President |
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| Preceded by | Office established[a] |
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| Succeeded by | Office abolished[b][c] |
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In office 14 December 1962 – 8 July 1994 | | Preceded by | Office established |
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| Succeeded by | Kim Jong Il |
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In office 24 June 1949 – 12 October 1966 | | Vice Chairman |
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| Preceded by | Kim Tu-bong |
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| Succeeded by | Himself (as General Secretary) |
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In office 9 September 1948 – 28 December 1972 | | President |
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| First Vice Premier | Kim Il |
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| Vice Premier |
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| Preceded by | Office established |
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| Succeeded by | Kim Il |
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In office 5 July 1950 – 24 December • North Korean leader Kim Jong Un continues to accelerate the country’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. At the same time, North Korea has been a key supplier of arms to Russia as the war in Ukraine progresses. Both of these actions are critical threats to South Korea, the United States, and Japan. But the outside world is missing an equally important development with immense implications for stability on the Korean Peninsula—the slow and irreversible breakdown of the Kim dynasty. That said, regime collapse is not necessarily around the corner. When North Korea’s founding dictator Kim Il Sung died in July 1994, predictions were rampant about regime or state collapse. When his son and successor Kim Jong Il died in December 2011, many North Korea experts thought that then twenty-seven-year-old Kim Jong Un—Kim Jong Il’s youngest son—would not be able to stay in power. It has been thirteen years since Kim Jong Un succeeded his father, and he remains in firm control over No
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