East Asian Leaders 1-20
18 entries in the East Asian Leaders compendium.
East Asian Leaders 1-20 — Era Chart
Jiang ZeminFourth paramount leader of China from 1989 to 2002.Kim Dae-jungSouth Korean president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.Kim Jong IlHe succeeded his father, Kim Il Sung, and ruled the country as a repressive and totalitariKim Jong UnThird Kim dynasty ruler of North Korea since 2011, succeeding his father Kim Jong Il.Kim Yo JongNorth Korean politician and sister of leader Kim Jong Un.Kim Young-samSouth Korea's first civilian president in over three decades.Kakuei TanakaJapanese prime minister who never finished high school.Junichiro KoizumiNeoliberal reformer and sixth-longest serving Japanese prime minister.Lee Hsien LoongSingapore's third prime minister, served 2004–2024, now senior minister.Lee Myung-bakSouth Korean president and former Hyundai CEO.Lee Teng-huiFirst directly elected president of the Republic of China.Leung Chun-yingLi KeqiangChinese premier who died in 2023 at age 68, the youngest to leave office and earliest to dLi PengChinese premier who backed the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.Li QiangChinese premier and Xi Jinping ally, pro-business reformer.Li XiannianChinese Communist leader and conservative Party elder.Liu ShaoqiChinese revolutionary and politician, chairman of the People's Republic of China (1959–196Ma Ying-jeouSixth president of the Republic of China, 2008–2016.
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