Kim Il Sung was a North Korean communist revolutionary, military officer, politician, and dictator who founded the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), also known as North Korea, in 1948, and led it until his death in 1994. He was succeeded by his son Kim Jong Il and posthumously declared Eternal President. He was the third-longest serving non-royal head of state and government in the 20th century, in office for more than 45 years.
- Occupation
- politician, writer, partisan, memoirist
- Position held
- President of North Korea, Premier of North Korea, member of the Supreme People's Assembly, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea
- Citizenship
- Korea under Japanese rule, Soviet Union, North Korea
- Born
