Kim Jong-il
Kim Jong Il was a North Korean politician and dictator who was the second supreme leader of North Korea from the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994 until his own death in 2011. Posthumously, Kim Jong Il was declared an Eternal Leader of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).
Background
- Born in
- Vyatskoye
- Educated at
- Kim Il-sung UniversityUniversity of MaltaMangyongdae Revolutionary School
- Awards
- 🏆 National Order of Niger🏆 Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"🏆 Order of the National Flag🏆 Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"🏆 Royal Order of Cambodia
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Trending topics shown first"Whenever they saw my car passing by, they would run towards it cheering and shedding tears. This feeling cannot be manufactured or bought with money. It is a phenomenon that can be witnessed only in o…"
"In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of socialism was inseparably linked with their names."
"Whenever such practices as failing to carry out the Party's ideas and policies unconditionally, abusing one's authority, acting bureaucratically, enjoying privileges and being corrupt are revealed amo…"
"Independence is an attribute of man, the social being; it should not be viewed as the development to perfection of a natural, biological attribute of living matter. This is, in essence, an evolutionar…"
"The US imperialists … are resorting to every conceivable scheme to stifle us. They are not only bringing political pressure and military threats to bear on us but also imposing economic sanctions. Thi…"
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Timeline
1941
Born
Birth2011
Died
Death
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