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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 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]
English Comment References 당중앙 (黨中央) Tangjungang Party Centre/Center of the Party 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
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.
Kim Jong Un (born 8 January 1983) has been the supreme leader of North Korea since the death of Kim Jong Il in 2011. [1]On 15 April 2012, the centenary of the birth of North Korea's first leader Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Un made his first major public speech, entitled Let Us March Forward Dynamically Towards Final Victory, Holding Higher the Banner of Songun. [2]
The death of Kim Jong Il (Korean: 김정일의 죽음과 국장) was reported by North Korean state television news on 19 December 2011. [1] The presenter Ri Chun-hee announced that he had died on 17 December at 8:30 am of a massive heart attack while traveling by train to an area outside Pyongyang.
The Order of Kim Jong Il (Korean: 김정일 훈장) is a North Korean order named after Kim Jong Il, the former leader of North Korea. It is the highest order of North Korea , along with the Order of Kim Il Sung , and only second to one honorary title, the Hero of Labour .
Birthplace of Kim Jong-suk in Hoeryong. Kim Jong-suk (Korean: 김정숙; Hancha: 金正淑; [a] 24 December 1917 [1] [b] – 22 September 1949) was a Korean revolutionary, anti-Japanese guerrilla, Communist activist, the first wife of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung, the mother of former leader Kim Jong Il and grandmother of current leader Kim Jong Un.