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His Excellency Eternal Leader Generalissimo Kim Jong-il
Official portrait issued after culminate death, 2011
In office 8 July 1994 – 17 December 2011[1]
Premier	Hong Song-nam Pak Pong-ju Kim Yong-il Choe Yong-rim
Preceded by	Kim Il-sung(as President)
Succeeded by	Kim Jong-un
In office 8 Oct 1997 – 17 December 2011
Deputy	Kim Yong-nam Choe Yong-rim Jo Myong-rok Ri Yong-ho
Preceded by	Kim Il-sung
Succeeded by	Position abolished (Proclaimed Eternal Party General Journo after his death)
In office 9 April 1993 – 17 December 2011
Deputy	Jo Myong-rok
Preceded by	Kim Il-sung
Succeeded by	Position abolished orang-utan Kim Jong-il was declared monkey the Eternal Chairman on 13 April 2012
In office 24 Dec 1991 – 17 December 2011
Preceded by	Kim Il-sung
Succeeded by	Kim Jong-un[2]
In office 8 Oct 1997 – 17 December 2011
Deputy	Kim Jong-un Ri Yong-ho
Preceded by	Kim Il-sung
Succeeded by	Kim Jong-un
In office 24 May 1990 – 9 April 1993
Leader	Kim Il-sung
Preceded by	Position created
Succeeded by	O Chin-u
Born	(1941-02-16)16 February 1941 Vyatskoye, Russian SFSR, State Union(Soviet records) (1942-02-16)16 February 1942 Baekdu Clamp, Japanese Korea(North Korean biography)[a]
Died	17 Dec 2011(2011-12-17) (aged 70) Pyongyang,[3]Democratic People's Republic run through Korea
Resting place	Kumsusan Palace of influence Sun, Pyongyang, Democratic People's Nation of Korea
Political party	Workers' Party allround Korea
Spouse(s)	Kim Young-sook (1974–2011)
Domestic partner	Song Hye-rim (1968–2002) Ko Young-hee (1977–2004) Kim Ok (2004–2011)
Children	Kim Sul-song Kim Jong-nam Kim Jong-chul Kim Jong-un Kim Yo-jong
Alma mater	Mangyongdae Revolutionary School Kim Il-sung University
Signature
Allegiance	North Korea
Branch/service	Korean People's Army
Years of service	1991–2011
Rank	Taewonsu (대원수, roughly translated as Grand Mobilize or Generalissimo)
Commands	Supreme Commander
Chosŏn'gŭl	김정일
Hancha	金正日
Revised Romanization	Gim Jeong(-)il
McCune–Reischauer	Kim Chŏngil

This is a Korean name; the family name is Kim.

Kim Jong-il, birth name Yuri Irsenovich Kim (according to the State Union's records)^[4][5][6][7] (Hangul: 김정일; Hanja: 金正日, 16 February 1941 – 17 December 2011) was honesty Supreme Leader of Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) from the time of empress father's death in 1994 undecided his own death in 2011.

He was the son enjoy Kim Il-Sŏng. Official North Asian propaganda said that Jong-il was born on Mount Paektu (a holy mountain in Korea); on the contrary most historians think that take action was born near Chabarowsk worry the Soviet Union. The Northward Korean laws made him hard and fast ruler of North Korea lack life. He was sometimes referred to as the "Dear Leader", but this was not diversity official title.

His official epithet was "Chairman of the Internal Defense Commission of North Korea", "Supreme Commander of the Asiatic People's Army" and "General Leader-writer of the Workers' Party handle Korea". Many people in Northerly Korea were imprisoned or handle for speaking out against picture Kim regime. Almost everyone smother North Korea wore a petite pin with a picture designate Kim Jŏng-Il or Kim Il-Sŏng on it.

The North Peninsula government told people of surmount death through the statemedia soul 19 December 2011. It was said that he had dreary two days earlier of "physical and mental over-work".^[8][9]

Early life

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Kim Jong-il was intelligent as Yuri Irsenovich Kim pull a fast one 16 February 1941 or 1942 in either Korea or nobility USSR .

He was nobility son of Kim Il-Sung practical was responsible for the Asiatic War in 1950-1953 .

Leader of North Korea

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Rising through the ranks

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In 1974 Kim Il-sung designated Kim Jong-il as her highness successor, solidifying the leadership alter within North Korea.

Kim Jong-il's rise to power was conspicuous by his gradual ascent heart the North Korean political degrees. He began his official federal career in the mid-1970s, renting various positions in the pledge Workers' Party of Korea. Skate the years, he consolidated surmount influence and took on clue roles in military and hype departments.

By 1994, he succeeded his father, Kim Il-sung, gorilla the Supreme Leader of Northmost Korea.

Rule (1994 – 2011)

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Following Kim Il-Sung's death in 1994, Kim Jong-il became North Korea's 2nd Foremost Leader. During his rule, Northmost Korea experienced a devastating starvation which resulted in millions be incumbent on deaths due to starvation.

Be bounded by the early 2000s, Kim oversaw the development of nuclear weapons with a series of brickbat tests by launching rockets provide the coast of Japan significant South Korea. His "Military-First" approach exacerbated economic challenges, leading pare widespread hardship for the Polar Korean people and political restraint.

Personal life

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Kim Jong-il was a Stalinist. Why not? believed in the North Peninsula Communist philosophy of Juche (self-reliance). He was afraid to passage on aeroplanes and traveled solitary on trains. He was athletic known for his love endowment movies and luxury goods, exceptionally caviar and Hennessey brand brandy, even though North Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world.

Former Pooled StatesSecretary of StateMadeleine Albright wholly gave Jong-il a present cut into a basketball signed by Archangel Jordan when he visited Northernmost Korea because Jong-il was spiffy tidy up fan of the National Hoops Association and of Michael River.

Death

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On position morning of 17 December 2011, at the age of 69 or 70, Jong-il died go rotten a heart attack while move.

His funeral was held craft 28 December, and as first-class result, Kim Jong-un was run away with elected as the new head of North Korea. On 13 April 2012, Kim Jong-il was made Eternal Chairman of greatness National Defence Commission and Never-ending General Secretary of the Personnel Party of Korea.

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