title: 2021 in North Korea
text: # 2021 in North Korea
  
  Events in the year 2021 in North Korea.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Party Chairman → Party General Secretary: Kim Jong Un
  * Chairman of the State Affairs Commission: Kim Jong Un
  * President of the Supreme People's Assembly: Choe Ryong-hae
  * Premier: Kim Tok-hun
  
  ## Events
  
  Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in North Korea
  
  * From 5 January – The 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea.
  * 10 January – 8th Congress congress restored the operative functions of the General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, a title previously awarded "eternally" to Kim Jong Il, and elected Kim Jong Un to it.
  * On January 14, a military parade took place in Kim Il-sung Square in which ballistic missiles were revealed, after a Workers' Party of Korea meeting was held by Kim Jong Un to oppose growing "US hostility." The Korean Central News Agency announced that the nuclear weapons showcased could “pre-emptively and completely destroy any enemy outside of our territory”.
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 4 February – Ri Jae-il, politician, First Deputy Director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department (born 1935).
  * 13 December – Kim Yong-ju, politician and the younger brother of Kim Il Sung (born 1920).
  