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Kim Il-sung
Kim Il-sung was born Kim Sung-ju on April 15, 1912, the son of a middle-class schoolmaster named Kim Hyung-jik. He spent 14 years in Manchuria, attending middle school in Kirin, joining the Chinese Communist party in 1931.
Kim fought Japanese-Manchurian forces from 1932 to 1945.
In 1939, Kim received his military and political training at the Soviet party school in Khabarovsk in the Soviet Far East.
When the Korean peninsula was split into North and South Koreas in 1948, Kim grabbed power in North Korea and held it for the next 46 years.
His most famous years were from 1950 to 1953, when he led his country (backed by the Soviet Union and China) in the Korean War against South Korea (backed by the US and United Nations forces). He died in1994, and arranged for power to pass to his son, Kim Jong-il. In 1998 his son gave his father the posthumous title of "eternal president.”
Kim Il-sung
Kim Il-sung was born Kim Sung-ju on April 15, 1912, the son of a middle-class schoolmaster named Kim Hyung-jik. He spent 14 years in Manchuria, attending middle school in Kirin, joining the Chinese Communist party in 1931.
Kim fought Japanese-Manchurian forces from 1932 to 1945.
In 1939, Kim received his military and political training at the Soviet party school in Khabarovsk in the Soviet Far East.
When the Korean peninsula was split into North and South Koreas in 1948, Kim grabbed power in North Korea and held it for the next 46 years.
His most famous years were from 1950 to 1953, when he led his country (backed by the Soviet Union and China) in the Korean War against South Korea (backed by the US and United Nations forces). He died in1994, and arranged for power to pass to his son, Kim Jong-il. In 1998 his son gave his father the posthumous title of "eternal president.”
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