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Kim Il Sung (Hangul: 김일성; Hanja: 金日成, Kim Il Sŏng; 15 April – 8 July ) was the first leader of North Korea from until his death in His birth name was "Kim Song-ju". Kim created the Juche political idea.

He ran North Korea differently than the Soviet Union and China.

By the late s and during the s and the s, the North Korean economy preformed quite well and that many North Koreans enjoyed a higher standard of living than the South Koreans. By the s however, the South started to take over. Despite this however, the North Korean economy still preformed quite well until the Fall of the Soviet Union, North Korea's biggest trading partner in where the North Korean economy declined and fell far behind the South.

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Kim Il-sung was born on April 15, , in Mangyondae, near Pyongyang, Korea, and went on to become a guerrilla fighter against Japanese occupation. He was elected country president in , and held the position until his death on July 8, His parents took the family to Manchuria in the s to flee the Japanese occupation of Korea. During the s, Kim, who mastered Chinese, would become a Korean freedom fighter, working against the Japanese and taking the name Il-sung in honor of a famed guerilla fighter. Kim eventually relocated to the Soviet Union for special training, where he joined the country's Communist Party.

Kim died of a heart attack on 8 July He was succeeded by his son, Kim Jong-il.

Kim Il Sung's name means "one who becomes the sun".^[1] There are more than statues of Kim Il Sung in North Korea. ^[2]

Early Life and Career

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Kim Il-Sung was Born Kim Song-ju on April 15, in the area of what is now Pyongyang during the Occupation of Korea by Japan.

His Family participated in Anti-Japanese Resistance by Korea nationalists around the time when Kim was Born. Kim and his Family fled to Manchuria. During his Time in Manchuria, Kim was exposed to Marxism literature and joined Guerrilla activities against the Japanese by the late s and early s.

Resistance to Japan

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During the Japanese occupation of Korea, Kim Il Sung was involved with numerous opposition guerrilla groups.

Founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

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In , after the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, the United States bombed Japan at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, severely weakening the Japanese Empire. The Soviet Red Army entered Japanese-Korea and captured Pyongyang with little difficulty.

They made Kim Il Sung the leader of the North Korean branch of the Korean Communist Party and supplied him with modern Soviet tanks, trucks, arms and artillery for the Korean People's Army (KPA). The Democratic People's Republic of Korea was declared on September 8, despite UN resistance. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin installed Kim as leader of the new state.

The southern portion of the Korean Peninsula declared itself the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in retaliation. Statues of Kim appeared in North Korea as early as

Korean War

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See the main article: Korean War

The Soviet Union recognized Kim's regime as having sovereignty over the whole Korea, including the south.

It is generally accepted that Kim invaded the south by his own decision and that the Soviets did not influence him. The south was caught completely by surprise when Kim's army invade in the early morning of June 25, The KPA captured Seoul and most of the south apart from Pusan in the south-east. UN forces backed mostly by the United States landed in Korea and began to push the KPA back north.

Firstly, the UN forces managed to push the KPA back behind the 38th parallel (the imaginary line that divided the Koreas during the war). The newly formed People's Republic of China was at first reluctant to the idea that the Koreas would be reunited under Kim's regime but accepted when Kim told them that Stalin approved the invasion.

It was put to a UN vote on whether UN forces should attempt to gain control of Korea under democratic rule. The motion was passed since the Soviet Union was not present during the vote. Had the Soviets vetoed the proposal, the UN forces would not have been able to press further into Korea. Eventually UN forces captured Pyongyang and Kim's government was forced to flee north over the Yalu River into China.

The Chinese army mobilized and eventually crossed the Yalu River and fought alongside the KPA and Red Army against US, British and UN forces. Eventually they reached a stalemate since neither force could gain full sovereignty of the peninsula.

Kim sung il biography define life He formed a local Marxist Young Communists' League in , and was expelled from school for his political activities in He joined the Communist Party in In , Japanese military advances forced him to leave for the Soviet Union, where he fought with the Red Army. He established a North Korean Interim People's Committee, which set about instituting radical land reform, expropriating landowners and nationalizing industry. Kim was declared Premier upon North Korean independence on 9 September , which also marked the withdrawal of Soviet troops.

An armistice was signed on July 27, ending three years of fighting and established the two sovereign nations of North Korea and South Korea. Since no peace treaty was signed, the two Koreas are technically still in a state of war with each other.

Leader of North Korea

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During the early years, North Korea was ahead of its southern neighbor economically; most likely due to Soviet and Chinese aid.

Kim installed a centrally-planned Soviet-style command economy.

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The means of production was controlled by the government and food prices were fixed instead of being allowed to rise and fall like in a market system. Kim Il Sung formally became leader of North Korea with the establishment of the constitution of the DPRK in which identified him as President of the republic.

Cult of personality

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To coincide with Kim Il Sung's seventieth birthday in , a m tall tower called the Juche Tower was built.

It was made up from 25, stone blocks; one for each day of Kim's life.

It is a legal requirement to have a portrait of him, alongside his son Kim Jong Il, hanging in one's home. Everyone is issued a special cloth to dust and clean the portraits.

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In the s a calcium deposit developed on the back of Kim Il Sung's neck. It swelled up to the size of an orange at its greatest extent. It was quickly determined that an operation to remove it was not possible due to its close proximity to his spine. North Korean reporters were thereafter forbidden to photograph Kim Il Sung from the right.

In with Kim Jong Il fully consolidating his power after the death of his father, North Korea abandoned the Gregorian calendar that is used in the rest of the world. Instead they use the Juche calendar which starts from the year of Kim Il Sung's birth () as being year 1. For example, would be written as Juche To calculate the date in Juche years, simply subtract from the current year.

Dates are often written in North Korea with Juche first; for example: April 12, Juche ().

Later rule

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In the early s, North Korea began to experience a famine, labelled as the 'Great Famine'. At the same time the Soviet Union was going through serious economic and social changes as well as suffering a stagnating economy.

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The Soviets, who had supplied the DPRK with food amongst other things since the late s, began to demand the North Koreans to pay them back; money that the DPRK did not posses. The Soviet Union collapsed in and food aid stopped almost immediately. Kim Il Sung's centrally planned economic system, where the government plans the economic output in advance, proved to be too inflexible to avoid the economic disaster.

On the 8th of July , Kim Il Sung had a heart attack and died shortly afterwards, leaving his country severely bankrupt, malnourished and isolated.

Kim jong il biography Kim Il-sung , absolute ruler of North Korea for 46 years, was the first communist head of state to establish dynastic rule, enabling his son to succeed him. Kim Il-sung was born Kim Sung-ju on April 15, , the son of a middle-class schoolmaster named Kim Hyung-jik in Pyongan-namdo, a northeastern province of Korea. For hundreds of years known as the Hermit Kingdom because of its sealed borders and attempted isolation from its powerful neighbors, Korea was annexed by expansionist Japan two years before Kim's birth. Japan's colonial domination become progressively harsher, and the state-sanctioned biographies of Kim's youth have him rebelling by scratching out with a penknife the Japanese titles of his required schoolbooks and by exhorting his schoolmates to speak Korean, not Japanese. About Kim fled with his parents to Manchuria to escape Japanese oppression.

A mourning period was declared after he died and did not officially end until ; three years after death. His son, the long-groomed successor, Kim Jong Il succeeded him as supreme leader of North Korea. Kim Jong Il did not become president since Il-Sung was given the honorary title of 'Eternal President'.

Instead he was named General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (leader of the ruling party). North Korea is therefore the world's only country that is technically led by a dead man.

State propaganda portrayed Kim Il Sung as a god to the people and when he died many people felt lost, distressed and confused as many believed that he could not die.

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