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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 February 2025. Leader 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 김정일 Kim in August 2011 General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea In office 8 October ...
Kim Jong Il (16 February 1941 – 17 December 2011) was the Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011. According to North Korean sources, Kim Jong Il published some 890 works during a period of his career from June 1964 to June 1994. [a] [2] According to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), the number of works from 1964 to 2001 was 550. [3]
The first of Kim Jong Il's titles. Has been in use since 1973 after Kim was secretly appointed as his father's successor and until it was officially announced in order to mention Kim Jong Il in press without calling him by name. [8] 웃분 Utpun Superior Person The title has been in use since the middle of the 1970s. [8] 친애하는 지도자
Kim Jong Il had a sister, Kim Kyung-hee, who was North Korea's first female four-star general [16] and married to Jang Song-thaek, who was the second most powerful person in North Korea before his December 2013 execution for corruption. [17] Kim Jong Il had four partners, [17] and at least five children with three of them. [18]
Kim's second wife, Kim Jong Suk, and their son, Kim Jong Il Kim Il Sung is believed to have married 3 times, although virtually nothing is known about his first wife. [ 105 ] His second wife, Kim Jong Suk (1917–1949), [ 2 ] gave birth to two sons and one daughter before her death in childbirth during the delivery of a stillborn girl.
According to North Korean propaganda, Kim Jong Il was born in a secret camp at Mount Paektu on 16 February 1942. Kim Jong Il was born in February 1941 to Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong-suk in Siberia in the Russian Federal Republic, Soviet Union. His father had been in exile because of his guerrilla activities.
Kim Jong Il. This is a list of awards and decorations received by Kim Jong Il. According to North Korean sources, North Korea "conferred ... the title of Hero of the DPRK four times, the Order of Kim Il Sung four times, Kim Il Sung Prize two times, 22 orders and 9 medals" on Kim Jong Il. Additionally, "many countries and international ...
It is thought that Kim's official birth year was changed for symbolic reasons; 1982 marked the seventieth birthday of his grandfather Kim Il Sung, and forty years after the official birth of his father Kim Jong Il. [8] Kim Jong Un is the second of three children of Ko Yong Hui and Kim Jong Il; his elder brother, Kim Jong Chul, was born in 1981 ...