Kim Il-songs North Korea

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Rumors that he was torn apart by a pack of wild dogs, or gunned down by anti-aircraft guns after watching his family suffer the same fate, have never been verified.

Song travelled to Russia during the s for medical care, and reportedly defected to the West after the Soviet Union crumbled. She is believed to have died on May 18, He later claimed he wanted to visit Disneyland there. The years until his death were spent mostly in Macau and various Asian party spots. That was until Feb. Power has coalesced around the portly, Swiss-educated year-old, and neither Washington nor Beijing knows how to bring him to heel.

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Sign Up for Our Newsletters Sign up to receive the top stories you need to know now on politics, health, money and more. It was composed by Sol Myong-sun and the words were written by Sin Un-ho. The song praises former leader, Kim Jong-il who ruled from until as a part of his cult of personality.

During the presidency of Kim Il-sung , Kim Jong-il helped to run his father's own personality cult. At the death of his father, Kim Jong-il had his own cult. Although the "Song of General Kim Jong-il" is not as widely popular as the "Song of General Kim Il-sung" nor was his cult as large as his father's , it is also played regularly in North Korea. The song is played by the North Korean state television at the start of broadcasts each day.

Pyongyang FM Broadcasting also plays a chime version of the first two lines of the song as its interval signal at the start of broadcasts.

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An English version has been recorded by Ritta Dimek. Despite repeated chiding from Western nations, Kim continued to conduct nuclear research and carry on with the uranium enrichment program. In June , former U. President Jimmy Carter travelled to Pyongyang for talks with Kim. To the astonishment of the United States and the International Atomic Energy Agency , Kim agreed to halt his nuclear research program and seemed to be embarking upon a new opening to the West.

Kim Il-sung married twice. His first wife, Kim Jong-suk — , gave birth to two sons before her death in childbirth during the delivery of a stillborn girl. Kim Jong-il was his oldest son. The other son Kim Man-il , or Shura Kim of this marriage died in in a swimming accident. Kim married Kim Sung-ae in , and it is believed he had three children with her: Kim Pyong-il was prominent in Korean politics until he became ambassador to Hungary.

Since Kim Pyong-il has been ambassador to the Czech Republic. Kim was reported to have other illegitimate children. On his death in , his eldest son Kim Jong-il succeeded him as supreme leader of North Korea. On 8 July , Kim Il-sung collapsed from a sudden heart attack at the age of After the heart attack, Kim Jong-il ordered the team of doctors who were constantly at his father's side to leave, and arranged for the country's best doctors to be flown in from Pyongyang. After several hours, the doctors from Pyongyang arrived, but despite their efforts to save him, Kim Il-sung died.

After the traditional Confucian Mourning period, his death was declared thirty hours later. Kim Il-sung's death resulted in nationwide mourning and a ten-day mourning period was declared by Kim Jong-il. His funeral in Pyongyang was attended by hundreds of thousands of people who were flown into the city from all over North Korea.

Kim Il-sung's body was placed in a public mausoleum at the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun , where his preserved and embalmed body lies under a glass coffin for viewing purposes. His head rests on a traditional Korean pillow and he is covered by the flag of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Newsreel video of the funeral at Pyongyang was broadcast on several networks, and can now be found on various websites. There are over statues of Kim Il-sung in North Korea, similar to the many statues and monuments put up by East Bloc leaders to themselves. Some statues have reportedly been destroyed by explosions or damaged with graffiti by North Korean dissidents.

Kim Il-sung's image, especially his posthumous portrait released in , is prominent in places associated with public transportation, which hangs at every North Korean train station and airport. Kim Il-sung's birthday, " Day of the Sun ", is celebrated every year as a public holiday in North Korea.

According to North Korean sources, Kim Il-sung had received foreign orders, medals and titles from 70 countries since the s until, and after, his death. Kim Il-sung was the author of many works. According to North Korean sources these amount to approximately 10, speeches, reports, books, treatises and others.

According to official North Korean sources, Kim Il-sung was the original writer of many plays and operas.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This is a Korean name ; the family name is Kim. Kumsusan Palace of the Sun , Pyongyang. Kim Hyong-jik Kang Pan-sok.

Kim Il-song's North Korea

Around the time the song Star of Korea was being spread, my comrades changed my name and began to call me Han Byol I did not like to be called by another name. Still less did I tolerate the people extolling me by comparing me to a star or the sun; it did not befit me, [as a] young man. But my comrades would not listen to me, no matter how sternly I rebuked them for it or argued against it It was in the spring of when I spent some three weeks in prison, having been arrested by the warlords in Guyushu, that the name Kim Il Sung appeared in the press for the first time.

Until that time most of my acquaintances had called me by my real name, Song Ju. It was in later years when I started the armed struggle in east Manchuria that I was called by one name, Kim Il Sung, by my comrades. These comrades upheld me as their leader, even giving me a new name and singing a song about me. Thus they expressed their innermost feelings. Kim dynasty North Korea. Death and state funeral of Kim Il-sung. North Korean cult of personality.

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