Background and career
Kim Jong Chul (Korean: 김정철; born 25 September 1981), sometimes spelled Kim Jong Chol, is the son of the former North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il. His younger brother is current Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. His older half-brother is Kim Jong-nam, who was assassinated in February 2017.
In 2007, Jong Chul was appointed deputy chief of a leadership division of the Workers' Party of Korea. However, on 15 January 2009, the South Korean Yonhap News Agency reported that Kim Jong Il appointed his youngest son, Jong Un, to be his successor, passing over Jong Nam and Jong Chul. These reports were supported in April 2009 when Kim Jong Un assumed a low-level position within the ruling Workers' Party since Kim Jong Il was groomed by his own father, Kim Il Sung, in a similar way before becoming North Korean leader in 1994.
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