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 it
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.
Kim Hyong-jik was a Korean independence activist during Japanese rule. He was the father of the North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, the paternal grandfather of Kim Jong Il, and a great-grandfather of th
Kim Il Sung
…elected to be a Presidium member and chosen as his successor, establishing the Kim dynasty. Kim Il Sung was born Kim Sung Ju to independence activist Kim Hyong-jik and Kang Pan Sok. Kim had two younger brothers, Kim Ch'ŏlchu and Kim Yong-ju. Kim Hyong Jik also had an adopted son Kim Ryong-ho, born in 1911. Kim…
Kim in 1921
Personal record of Kim Hyŏng-jik documented by Japanese authorities during his residence in Changbai County, Manchuria.