Kim Jong Un: What we know about him

North Korean economy is growing

This might all sound surprising to readers of the Western media, but the four years of Kim Jong-un's rule has been marked by significant growth, with the annual growth rate being estimated to be around 3 to 4 percent each year. The previous two decades were a time when the economy fell off a cliff, then stagnated. Things began to get better in the last years of Kim Jong Il, but under his son the improvement speeded up.