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| 6 April 1961 | Worshipping Big Powers and Depending on Foreign Forces Is the Way to National Ruin (사대와 외세의존은 망국의 길이다) | The work is a discussion with students of Kim Il Sung University. |
| 22 April 1964 | On Improving the Work of the Youth League to Meet the Requirements of the Developing Situation (현실발전의 요구에 맞게 청년동맹사업을 개선강화할 데 대하여) | Speech given to Socialist Patriotic Youth League, then known as the Democratic ungdom League of Korea. |
| 12 June 1964 | The Basic Tasks Facing the Korean Central News Agency (조선중앙통신사의 기본임무) |
| 21 August 1964 | Let Us Make a New Advance in the Rural Economy in South Hwanghae Province (황해남도농촌경리발전에서 새로운 전환을 일으키자) |
| 15 September 1964 | Regarding the Need to Produce More Revolutionary Films for the Education of Soldiers (군인교양에 이바지할 혁명적인 영화를 많이 만들어야 한다) |
| 16 September 1964 | On Improving Party Guidance Relating to the Preservation of Historical Sites and Relics (력사유적과 유물보존사업에 대한 당적지도를 강화할데 대하  • Kim Jong IlLeader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011 For the South Korean long jumper, see Kim Jong-il (long jumper). In this Korean name, the family name is Kim. Eternal General Secretary Kim Jong Il |
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Kim in August 2011 | |
In office
8 October 1997 – 17 December 2011 | | Preceded by | Kim Il Sung |
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| Succeeded by | Kim Jong Un (as First Secretary) |
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In office
9 April 1993 – 17 December 2011 | | First Vice Chairman | O Jin-u
Jo Myong-rok |
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| Vice Chairman |
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| Preceded by | Kim Il Sung |
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| Succeeded by | Kim Jong Un (as First Chairman) |
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In office
24 December 1991 – 17 December 2011 | | Preceded by | Kim Il Sung |
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| Succeeded by | Kim Jong Un |
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In office
8 October 1997 – 17 December 2011 | | Preceded by | Kim Il Sung |
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| Succeeded by | Kim Jong Un |
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| Born | Yuri Irsenovich Kim
(1941-02-16)16 February 1941
Vyatskoye, Khabarovsk Krai, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
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| Died | 17 December 2011(2011-12-17) (aged 70)
Pyongyang, North Korea |
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• Known as “the Sun of Korea,” Kim Il-Sung (1912-1994) was born Kim Sung-Ju in Mangyongdae village near Pyongyang to a Christian mother (Kang Ban Sok) and father (Kim Hyong Jik) who taught in a Western missionary school and was a practitioner of Koryo (traditional) medicine. To avoid the Japanese occupation, the family moved to Manchuria where Kim Sung-Ju attended school to 8th grade. He became active in vagabond anti-Japanese bands and joined the Chinese Communist Party. In 1930 his guerilla comrades (according to him) gave him the name “Il Sung,” the sun. He eventually became leader of a division in the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army. Contrary to accepted legend, his guerrilla efforts against the Japanese were of marginal impact but Kim Il-Sung was regarded as a good organizer. Under intense Japanese pressure in China, the Korean partisans fled to the Soviet Union in 1941 where Kim Il-Sung became commander of a batta
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