Kim Il-sung
Founder of North Korea and General Secretary of the Workers' Party from 1948 to 1994
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Date of birth | 15 April 1912 Mangyongdae District (Korea under Japanese rule) 김성주 | ||||
Date of death | 8 July 1994 (Death and funeral of Kim Il-sung) Pyongyang | ||||
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English: Kim Il-sung is the former General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and founder of North Korea.
한국어: 김일성 조선로동당 총서기이자 조선민주주의인민공화국의 창시자이다.
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1927
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1946
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1950
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1960s
Kim with others
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Kim with his wife Kim Jong-suk, 1941
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Kim with Kim Chaek, 1947
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Kim with Kim Gu, 1948
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Kim with Ho Hon, 1948
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Kim with Park Hon-yong, 1948
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Kim with Choi Yong-gun, 1951
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Kim with Otto Grotewohl and Otto Nagel, 1956
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Kim with Zhou Enlai, 1958
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Kim with Mao Zedong, 1970
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Kim with Nicolae Ceaușescu, 1971
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Kim with Erich Honecker, 1984
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Kim with Lim Su-kyung, 1989
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Posthumous portrait released in 1994