Kim Jong Il, born Yuri Irsenovich Kim on 16 February 1941, was a North Korean politician who was the second President of North Korea. He led North Korea following the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994 until his own death in 2011, when he was succeeded by his son, Kim Jong Un. Afterwards, Kim Jong Il was declared Eternal General Secretary of the WPK.
Kim Jong Il, born Yuri Irsenovich Kim on 16 February 1941, was a North Korean politician who was the second President of North Korea. He led North Korea following the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994 until his own death in 2011, when he was succeeded by his son, Kim Jong Un. Afterwards, Kim Jong Il was declared Eternal General Secretary of the WPK.
In the early 1980s, Kim had become the heir apparent for the leadership of North Korea, thus being established the Kim dynasty and he assumed important posts in party and army organizations. Kim was the General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), WPK Presidium, Chairman of the National Defense Commission (NDC) of North Korea and the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army (KPA), the fourth-largest standing army in the world.
Kim assumed leadership during a period of catastrophic economic crisis amidst the dissolution of the Soviet Union, on which it was heavily dependent for trade in food and other supplies, which brought a famine. Kim strengthened the role of the military by his Songun ("military-first") policies, making the army the central organizer of civil society. Kim's rule also saw economic reforms, including the opening of the Kaesong Industrial Park in 2003.
Following Kim's failure to appear at important public events in 2008, foreign observers assumed that Kim had either fallen seriously ill or died. On 19 December 2011, the North Korean government announced that he had died two days earlier, whereupon his third son, Kim Jong Un, was promoted to a senior position in the ruling WPK and succeeded him.
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Filmography (Movies)
Cinema in the Land of Comrade Kim
Character:Himself
Release Date:12/10/2024
Beyond Utopia
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:23/10/2023
North Korea: A Plan to Survive
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/07/2023
King of Clones
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:23/06/2023
Nordkorea – Die Macht der Kim-Dynastie
Character:Himself
Release Date:01/06/2023
North Korea: Inside The Mind of a Dictator
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:18/01/2021
Korea, A Hundred Years of War
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:11/06/2020
President - Documentary
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:07/11/2019
A Friend of Kim
Character:Self (archival footage)
Release Date:09/05/2019
Korea: The Never-Ending War
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:29/04/2019
The Lovers and the Despot
Character:Self - Politician (archive footage)
Release Date:22/09/2016
The Propaganda Game
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:03/10/2015
I Am Sun Mu
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:03/10/2015
Kim Jong-un: The Unauthorized Biography
Character:Self - Politician (archive footage)
Release Date:23/09/2015
Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in PyongYang
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:25/01/2015
Dictator: One Crazy Job
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:12/06/2013
One Day on Earth
Character:Self
Release Date:22/04/2012
Kim Jong-il
Character:
Release Date:13/09/2011
North Korean Film Madness
Character:Himself
Release Date:20/04/2011
The Red Chapel
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:29/12/2010
Death of a President
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:27/10/2006
Friends Of Kim
Character:Himself (archive footage)
Release Date:01/03/2006
A State of Mind
Character:Himself (archive footage)
Release Date:10/08/2005
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Il is a Great Thinker and Theoretician
Character:Himself
Release Date:07/04/2000
Always Working Together for the People
Character:Himself
Release Date:01/01/1994
North Korea: The Parade
Character:Self
Release Date:01/05/1989
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