Leaders

Kim Jong-un

Who leads North Korea? Kim Jong-un, Supreme Leader. Profile, record and power assessment from the Magna Bureau leader index.

Supreme Leader — North Korea

Record & power

Record score	55
Power score	63

Country momentum 0 — Quarterly momentum: the Bureau's read on the country's trajectory over the last quarter, from −10 (deteriorating fast) to +10 (accelerating).

Why it matters

Holds the world's most sanctioned state together and keeps a nuclear arsenal that makes invasion unthinkable.
Sanctions-proofed the economy through Chinese trade lifelines and Russian barter; famine-era fragility is gone.
Deepened the Moscow alignment — munitions and men for the Ukraine war bought oil, food and technology.
The people pay the price: one of the planet's most closed and hungry societies, ruled by fear.

Other leaders

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North Korea Rankings

Across the Bureau

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