Statues of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il, respectively the grandfather and father of the current Dear Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), on Mansu Hill (Wikimedia Commons, J. A. de Roo). They ruled in succession from the establishment of the DPRK in 1948 until 1994, and from 1994 until 2011, when the current Dear Leader assumed the role.
Some further information on that case of the young returned missionary from Utah who may have been kidnapped twelve years ago to serve as an involuntary tutor to Kim Jong-un: