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Yet it remained a fact that Ko was "never recognised as a daughter-in-law by Kim Il Sung", wrote Ryu - and nor was he ever publicly seen with her children.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
During the early years of his leadership, Kim Jong Un sought to secure his legitimacy by dressing like his grandfather Kim Il Sung.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
That would be the imaginatively-named Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang, North Korea, which was completed in 1982 for the 70th birthday of Kim Il Sung, that isolated nation’s legendary founder.
From Salon ● May 3, 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
Most crucially, Kim Il Sung built up an extraordinary cult of personality around himself that was durable enough to hand down to his son and then his grandson, the current leader Kim Jong Un.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
For years, he had been quietly wooed by Kim Il-sung, who had sent him personal entreaties to visit Pyongyang.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2025
Relations between Russia and North Korea go back to the North’s foundation in 1948, as Soviet officials installed young, ambitious nationalist Kim Il-sung, Kim’s late grandfather, as the country’s first ruler.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 18, 2023
He parked amid a cluster of American warplanes, tore a framed photograph of Kim Il-sung from his instrument panel, jumped out of his cockpit and threw the picture to the ground.
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2023
The only birthday ever celebrated was that of the country’s leader, Kim Il-sung, a day when she was allowed an entire bowl of rice.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 1, 2023
Ten days later elections were held in North Korea, and a separate government for the new Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was established with communist Kim Il-sung as its leader.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
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