Analysis The new leaders emerging under Kim Jong Un: insights from the dataPatterns in appearances reveal much about the ups and downs of Pyongyang politics In the second of this two part series on DPRK leadership dynamics, we look at the emerging group of leaders under Kim Jong Un. The first part in the series (on leadership trends from 1995 to 2017) can be found here. The first article in this series showed that the new leadership cohort emerging under Kim Jong Un is marked by diversity and infrequency of appearances, but it does seem that there are some key figures emerging, and these are detailed in the table below (Kim Jong Un’s wife, Ri Sol Ju, has not been included from the © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |