Kim Jong Il
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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
Kim in 2000
Kim Jong Il in 1947, at the age of six
Idealized portrait of Kim Jong Il
North Koreans bowing to the statues of Kim Jong Il and his father, Kim Il Sung, at the Mansu Hill Grand Monument
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 it
Kim Jong Il
…or 1942 – 17 December 2011) 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). Kim was born in…
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.