List of heads of state of North Korea

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The following is a list of heads of state of North Korea since its founding in 1948.

Heads of State of North Korea (1945–present)[]

Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Political party		Election	Supreme leader
		Took office	Left office	Time in office
Head of the Soviet Civil Administration in Northern Korea
	Terenty Shtykov 테렌티 스티코프 (1907–1964)	3 October 1945	9 September 1948	2 years, 342 days		All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)	None	Himself
Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly
	Kim Tu-bong 김두봉 (1889–1958)	9 September 1948	20 September 1957	9 years, 11 days		Workers' Party of North Korea Workers' Party of Korea	1st SPA	Kim Il-sung
	Choe Yong-gon 최용건 (1900–1976)	20 September 1957	28 December 1972	15 years, 99 days		Korean Social Democratic Party	2nd SPA 3rd SPA 4th SPA
						Workers' Party of Korea
President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
	Kim Il-sung 김일성 (1912–1994)	28 December 1972	8 July 1994 †	21 years, 192 days		Workers' Party of Korea	5th SPA 6th SPA 7th SPA 8th SPA 9th SPA	Himself
Vacant (8 July 1994–5 September 1998)
President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly
	Kim Yong-nam 김영남 (born 1928)	5 September 1998	9 April 2009	20 years, 216 days		Workers' Party of Korea	10th SPA 11th SPA	Kim Jong-il
Chairman of the National Defense Commission
	Kim Jong-il 김정일 (1941–2011)	9 April 2009	17 December 2011 †	2 years, 252 days		Workers' Party of Korea	12th SPA	Himself
Vacant (17 December 2011–8 March 2012)
First Chairman of the National Defence Commission
	Kim Jong-un 김정은 (born 1984)	13 April 2012	29 June 2016	4 years, 113 days		Workers' Party of Korea	[1]	Himself
President of the State Affairs Commission
	Kim Jong-un 김정은 (born 1984)	29 June 2016	Incumbent	5 years, 208 days		Workers' Party of Korea		Himself

See also[]

• Supreme Leader (North Korean title)
• Eternal leaders of North Korea
• General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea
• President of North Korea (disambiguation)
• Premier of North Korea
• Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly
• Government of North Korea
• Politics of North Korea

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