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Kim Jong-il
Khabarovsk, USSR
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…
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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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2026
Instadocs: The Prediction Games
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
Cinema in the Land of Comrade Kim
Movie Himself
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2023
Beyond Utopia
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2023
Moving
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2023
North Korea: A Plan to Survive
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2023
King of Clones
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2023
Nordkorea – Die Macht der Kim-Dynastie
Movie Himself
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2021
How to Become a Tyrant
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2021
Spycraft
TV show Self
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2021
North Korea: Inside The Mind of a Dictator
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Korea, A Hundred Years of War
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
President
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
A Friend of Kim
Movie Self (archival footage)
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2019
Korea: The Never-Ending War
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2017
NHK WORLD PRIME
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2016
The Lovers and the Despot
Movie Self - Politician (archive footage)
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2015
The Propaganda Game
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2015
I Am Sun Mu
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2015
Kim Jong-un: The Unauthorized Biography
Movie Self - Politician (archive footage)
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2015
Spotlight
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2015
Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in PyongYang
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2013
Dictator: One Crazy Job
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2012
One Day on Earth
Movie Self
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2011
Kim Jong-il
Movie
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2011
North Korean Film Madness
Movie Himself
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2010
The Red Chapel
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2007
The Schoolgirl's Diary
Movie Producer
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2006
Death of a President
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2006
Friends Of Kim
Movie Himself (archive footage)
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2005
A State of Mind
Movie Himself (archive footage)
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1994
Always Working Together for the People
Movie Himself
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1989
North Korea: The Parade
Movie Self
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1986
Pulgasari
Movie Executive Producer
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1978
Unsung Heroes
TV show Producer
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1969
Sea of Blood
Movie Producer
