Kim Il Sung | |
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김일성 | |
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Supreme Leader of North Korea | |
In office 9 September 1948 – 8 July 1994 Head of State: 15 August 1945 - 8 September 1948 | |
Preceded by | Office established; Nobuyuki Abe as Governor-General of Korea |
Succeeded by | Kim Jong-il |
President of North Korea | |
In office 28 December 1972 – 8 July 1994 | |
Preceded by | Office established Choi Yong-kun, Head of State as President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly |
Succeeded by | Office abolished (Proclaimed Eternal President of the Republic after his death) |
Prime Minister of North Korea | |
In office 9 September 1948 – 28 December 1972 | |
Preceded by | Office created |
Succeeded by | Kim Il (Premier) |
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea | |
In office 11 October 1966 – 8 July 1994 | |
Preceded by | Himself as Chairman |
Succeeded by | Kim Jong-il |
Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Korea | |
In office 30 June 1949 – 11 October 1966 | |
Preceded by | Kim Tu-bong |
Succeeded by | Himself as General Secretary |
Vice-Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of North Korea | |
In office 28 August 1946 – 30 June 1949 | |
Chairman | Kim Tu-bong |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Office abolished |
Chairman of the North Korea Bureau of the Communist Party of Korea | |
In office 17 December 1945 – 28 August 1946 | |
General Secretary | Pak Hon-yong |
Preceded by | Kim Yong-bom |
Succeeded by | Office abolished |
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Born | Kim Song-ju 15 April 1912 Mangyŏngdae, Heian-nandō, Japanese Korea |
Died | 8 July 1994 Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea | (aged 82)
Resting place | Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
Nationality | North Korean |
Political party | Workers’ Party of Korea |
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Relatives | Kim family |
Residence | Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea |
Occupation | Eternal President of the Republic |
Profession | President of North Korea |
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Rank | Dae wonsu (Grand Marshal) |
Commands | All (supreme commander) |
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Kim Il Sung (Hangul: 김일성; Hanja: 金日成, Kim Il Sŏng; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was the first leader of North Korea from 1948 until his death in 1994. His birth name was "Kim Song-ju". Kim created the Juche political idea. He ran North Korea differently than the Soviet Union and China.
By the late 1950s and during the 1960s and the 1970s, the North Korean economy preformed quite well and that many North Koreans enjoyed a higher standard of living than the South Koreans. By the 1980s however, the South started to take over. Despite this however, the North Korean economy still preformed quite well until the Fall of the Soviet Union, North Korea's biggest trading partner in 1991 where the North Korean economy declined and fell far behind the South. Kim died of a heart attack on 8 July 1994. He was succeeded by his son, Kim Jong-il.
Kim Il Sung's name means "one who becomes the sun".[1] There are more than 300 statues of Kim Il Sung in North Korea. [2]
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