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Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il badges are lapel pins with portraits depicting either one or both of the Eternal Leaders of North Korea, Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il. The badges have been common since the late 1960s, and are produced by the Mansudae Art Studio .
According to Ashley J. Tellis and Michael Wills, this amendment to the preamble was an indication of the unique North Korean characteristic of being a theocratic state based on the personality cult surrounding Kim Il Sung. In addition, North Korea adopted a Juche calendar dating from 1912, the year of Kim Il Sung's birth. [3]
Seoul: Korea Institute for National Unification. ISBN 978-89-8479-802-1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 February 2018. Lankov, Andrei (2007). North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea. Jefferson: McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-5141-8. — (2015). The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia. Oxford ...
Mansudae produces many paintings, including "all public images of Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong Il, and Kim Il Sung" and "One Can Always Lose, a series of 10 paintings depicting North Korea's 1-0 win over Italy during round one of the 1966 World Cup." [7] Several of the paintings have a uniform style of depicting North Korea as a utopia.
Chairman of the Provisional People's Committee of North Korea 8 February 1946 – August 1946 [3] 북조선인민위원회의 위원장 Chairman of the North Korean People's Committee August 1946 – September 1948 [3] 내각수상 Premier of the Cabinet of the DPRK: 9 September 1948 – 28 December 1972 [3] 조선민주주의인민공화국 주석
Video filmed by KCNA, which could not be independently verified by Reuters, showed North Korean people bowing and offering flowers to the statues of former leaders, Kim Jong Il and his father Kim ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 January 2025. Leader of North Korea from 1948 to 1994 In this Korean name, the family name is Kim. Eternal President Kim Il Sung 김일성 Official portrait, 1966 General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea In office 12 October 1966 – 8 July 1994 Secretary See list Choe Yong-gon Kim Il Pak Kum ...
In many pictures with Kim Jong-Un, his subjects look like they’re crying -- and a Korean Studies professor explains the reason for the display of emotion. Why are so many North Koreans crying in ...