Kim 101: How well do you know North Korea's leaders?

North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un succeeded his father, the late Kim Jong-il, in late 2011. In his first six years, Mr. Kim has expanded North Korea’s nuclear weapons program and has insisted that nuclear arms proliferation is off the negotiation table. But the Kims are known as much for their eccentricities and cults of personality as they are for their iron-fisted rule. How well do you know Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, and Kim Jong-un?

3. Kim Il-sung is recognized by North Koreans as the founder of their country, but he had foreign help. What country aided his rise?

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A bronze monument of the late North Korean leader Kim Il-sung stands at the Samjiyon Grand Monument area in Samjiyon, North Korea, at the base of Mount Paektu.

China

Imperial Japan

The Soviet Union

The United States

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