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Kim

American  
[kim] / kɪm /

noun

  1. a male or female given name.


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Kim Il Sung had ruled without interruption for nearly a half century.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

State media regularly applauded citizens who, amid earthquakes or floods, laid down their lives to protect sacred images of Kim Il Sung.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

But unlike his peers, Kim Il Sung had built a personality cult robust enough to be passed down to successive generations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Instead, Kim Il Sung supplemented and eventually replaced Marxism-Leninism with the Chuch’e Ideology, a philosophy that the Great Leader, as Kim Il Sung was known, is said to have begun developing as a 14-year-old revolutionary.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

What Jim Kim and Jaime Bayona started in the slums of Carabayllo has been expanded to sixteen rural health posts, where an increasing number of MDR patients are successfully treated.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French