Kim Il Sung
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Kim Il Sung was a North Korean communist revolutionary, military officer, politician, and dictator who founded the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, also known as North Korea, in 1948, and led th
Kim in 1950
The house in which Kim was born
1926 portrait of Kim from Whasung Military Academy, published in his autobiography With the Century
Members of the 88th Separate Rifle Brigade, an international military unit of the Red Army, in 1943. Kim is sitting in the front row, second from the right.
Communism in Korea
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The Communist movement in Korea emerged as a political movement in the early 20th century. Although the movement had a minor role in pre-war politics, the division between North Korea and South Korea
A portrait of Karl Marx on the wall of the Ministry of Foreign Trade. The portrait was removed in 2012 and reinstated in 2024.
