Kim Jong-il (also written as Kim Jong Il) (born February 16, 1941, Vyatskoye, Soviet Union; official biographies state February 16, 1942, Baekdu Mountain, Japanese Korea) is the leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. He is the Chairman of the National Defense Commission, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, and General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (the ruling party since 1948). He succeeded his father Kim Il-sung, founder of North Korea, who died in 1994, and commands the fourth largest standing army in the world. North Korea officially refers to him as the "Dear Leader".
He met with the south Korean representatives who came to Pyongyang to discuss the reunification issue and said the door to inter-Korean contact and dialogue that had remained deadlocked has been opened and high-level representatives from both sides have come to get together and share their views open-heartedly and this constitutes great progress in settling the reunion issue. Pointing to the need to establish the basic principle that would serve as the foundation for settling the reunification issue, he advanced the principles of independence, peaceful reunification and great national unity as the three principles of reunification.
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