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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?

  • By Arthur Bright Correspondent

1. The Kims have ruled North Korea since it became a country in 1948. North Korea is about the size of what US state?

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This undated composite satellite image produced and released by NASA shows the night lights of North and South Korea, center, with Japan at right and China at left.

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