biography
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Kim Il-sung
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originally Kim Song-ju
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pronunciation:
[kim ilsung]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1912–94)
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| biography:
| North Korean soldier, statesman, prime minister (1948–72), and president (1972–94), born near Pyongyang, Korea. He founded the Korean People's Revolutionary Army in 1932, and led a long struggle against the Japanese. He proclaimed the Republic in 1948, and became effective head of state. He was re-elected president in 1982 and 1986, established a unique personality cult wedded to an isolationist, Stalinist political-economic system, and named his son, Kim Jong-il (1942– ), as his successor. |
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