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Kim Jong-il - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Although the post of President was left vacant, and appears to have been abolished in deference to the memory of Kim Il-sung, Kim took the titles of General Secretary of the Party and chairman of the National Defense Commission, the real center of power in North Korea. Kim Jong-il (born February 16, 1941) is the leader of North Korea. Kim Jong-il's official biography states that he was born at Mount Paektu in northern Korea on February 16, 1942. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kim_Jong_Il   (2511 words)

kimjongil.cfm Kim is the eldest son and chosen successor of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung (Kim Il-song). Kim was born near Khabarovsk in the Soviet Union, where his mother, Kim Chong-suk, a partisan fighter, had retreated from her guerrilla base in Manchuria. Kim was also known in his youth as "Yura." He graduated from Namsan School in P'yongyang, a special school for the children of prominent revolutionaries and ranking party officials. www.asiasource.org /society/kimjongil.cfm   (400 words)

Kim Il-sung University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kim Il-sung University (김일성 대학교, Kim Il-sŏng Taehakkyo, Gim Il-seong Daehakgyo), founded in 1946, is the first university built in North Korea. The university bears the name of Kim Il-sung, the founder of Communist North Korea. This university or other tertiary education institution article is a stub. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kim_Il-sung_University   (126 words)

PeterMaass.com Magazine Articles Kim could not marry Sung because of her previous marriage, her child and the fact that she was six years his senior; in a Confucian society, a match of that sort would be frowned upon, especially for a man who was to inherit a nation. Kim noticed her beauty, as teenage boys do, but nothing came of it until he graduated from college and, while working at the central committee, immersed himself in a passion that would remain with him for the rest of his life: movies. Kim was embarking on the longest foreign trip in his adult life, a 24-day rail odyssey across Russia. www.petermaass.com /core.cfm?p=1&mag=111&magtype=1   (7449 words)

BBC NEWS World Asia-Pacific Profile: Kim Jong-il The younger Kim graduated from Kim Il-sung University in 1964, and after a period of grooming for leadership, he was officially designated successor to his father in 1980. After the death of Kim Il-sung in 1994, it was three years before he took over the leadership of the ruling Korean Workers' Party. Mr Kim is said to assiduously follow international events on the internet, and some see him as a clever manipulator, willing to take great risks to underpin his regime. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1907197.stm   (657 words)

Kim Jong Il Kim is a moviemaker himself, the credited producer of Pulgasari, a 1985 Godzillaesque story based on a 14th-Century Korean legend about a monster who helps peasants overthrow their dictatorial king. As a young man, Kim held wild parties, and was widely derided as the Korean Hugh Hefner. Kim Jong-Il is often said to be stark raving bonkers, but this is a misconception. www.nndb.com /people/261/000024189   (464 words)

Academe Today: Chronicle Archives THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER is being sued by the family of a student who died after participating in federally sponsored medical research at the university's hospital. Scientists at the University of California at San Francisco claim that a British pharmaceutical company prevented the publication of a study that criticized the effectiveness of one of its drugs. The University of California Press, the publisher of a scholarly edition of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is upset by Random House's publication of a new "comprehensive" edition of the work. chronicle.com /data/articles.dir/eguid-42.dir/35eguide.htm   (1728 words)

CNN--InDepth: Korea at 50 - Leader Profiles: Kim Jong II He was also Kim Jong Il's mentor, taking charge of his education when he was a student at Kim Il Sung University and serving as his confidant. Kim Il Sung's unique style of Stalinism, suffused with the Korean "juche" philosophy (roughly translated as "self reliance"), was subordinated to the more militant theme of Kim Jong Il's "Red Banner" policy, introduced in 1996. Kim Jong Il's younger brother drowned as a child and his mother died when he was 7 years old. www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2000/korea/story/leader/kim.jong.il   (1918 words)

Korea, Democratic People's Republic of After Kim Il Sung's death, his cult of personality and the glorification of his family and the official juche ideology remained omnipresent, approaching the level of a state religion. In 1998 the SPA reconfirmed Kim as the Chairman of the National Defense Commission and declared that position to be the "highest office of State." The Government adopted a "military first" policy that formalized and legitimated the growing power and influence of the military. Kim Jong Il has stated that ideological education must take precedence over academic education in the nation's schools, and he also called for the intensification of mandatory ideological study and discussion sessions for adult workers. www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18249.htm   (8834 words)

Congressional Research Service Kim Jong Il, or "dear leader," as he is called, has since the early 1970s figured as the prime force behind Pyongyang's campaign designed to elevate Kim Il Sung to the status of a virtual demi-god. Kim Jong Il's status as Kim senior's right-hand confidant was made official at the party's Sixth Congress in October 1980, when he was named to the inner circle of the Political Bureau and the party's military affairs committee. Kim Jong Il was reared under a stepmother, Kim Song Ae, whose son, Kim Pyong-il (40) is seen by some as a potential rival to Kim Jong Il. www.fas.org /spp/starwars/crs/94-578f.htm   (3346 words)

Hwang Jang-yop Holds Press Conference To Explain Why He Defected from North Kim's close relationship with Hwang Jang-yop began when Hwang was appointed president of Kim Il-sung University in April 1965. Hwang and Kim are flown from Beijing to the Philippines Kim Jong-il, who is deifying himself as an absolute ruler and is preparing to unleash war and thus drain the North's limited resources, should be condemned in the name of all Koreans. www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/dprk/1997/bg152.html   (10227 words)

CBC News Indepth: North Korea In 1964 he graduated from the Kim Sung Il University where legend has it he wrote 1,500 books, all of which are stored in the state's library. By 1980, Kim Jong-il's father designated him as his successor and he was given senior posts in the politburo, the military commission and the party secretariat. Kim Jong-il is believed to have fathered three children – Kim Sul Song, Kim Jong Nam and Kim Jong Chul – each of whom has a different mother. www.cbc.ca /news/background/northkorea/kimjongil.html   (835 words)

USATODAY.com - Kim Jong Il keeps everyone guessing Kim Jong Il's mother died when he was 7, and he seems to have been desperate to ingratiate himself with his father. Kim Jong Il unexpectedly greeted his counterpart at the airport and played the gracious host, cracking jokes and impressing observers with his knowledge of the outside world (he's an enthusiastic Web surfer and CNN watcher). Those who espouse this theory say Kim is genuinely terrified that the United States will attack his country when it's through dealing with Iraq. www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-01-14-kim-cover-usat_x.htm   (1962 words)

Kim Jong Il --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! Since the position of president had been eliminated by the Supreme People's Assembly, which reserved for Kim Il-sung the posthumous title of “eternal president,” the younger Kim was reelected chairman of the National Defense Commission, an office whose powers were expanded. Kim Jong Il was placed in safety in Manchuria by his father during the Korean War. Kim was officially designated as his father's successor in October 1980, was given command of the armed forces in 1990–91, and held high-ranking posts on the Central Committee, the Politburo, and the Party Secretariat. www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9045453?tocId=9045453   (1061 words)

Boston.com / News / World / Asia / North Korea Moving On, 10 Years After Kim Il-Sung "President Kim Il-sung is the sun for the Korean people and their benevolent father as he built a rich and powerful socialist country and provided them with an independent and creative life," said one of scores of tributes, many using decades-old phrases. Kim Jong-il's biggest change -- driven by the collapse of the world communist movement that kept North Korea afloat economically -- was the introduction in July 2002 of policies that let markets set prices for many goods and services. "Under Chairman Kim Jong-il's direction, hamburgers make their debut in North Korea," read a Yonhap news agency headline on Wednesday. www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2004/07/07/north_korea_moving_on_10_years_after_kim_il_sung?mode=PF   (756 words)

Anniversary of Kim Il Sung's Work Marked The establishment of Kim Il Sung University on Oct. 1, Juche 35 (1946) provided a dependable base for training native cadres of the worker-peasant origin through its own efforts and opened up a bright prospect of expanding the base for training native cadres with it as a matrix. Referring to the exploits performed by Kim Il Sung for developing the university, he noted that the university has entered a new high stage of its development thanks to the wise guidance of leader Kim Jong Il who has successfully carried forward Kim Il Sung's Juche-based idea on education and his immortal leadership exploits. Pyongyang, November 3 (KCNA) -- A national meeting to mark the 60th anniversary of President Kim Il Sung's famous work "On Establishing a University" took place at the People's Palace of Culture on Nov. 2. www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/dprk/2005/dprk-051104-kcna02.htm   (270 words)

kimjong.htm One day immediately after the war President Kim Il-sung had been giving on-the-spot guidance to the reconstruction of the devastated economy at a district. Kim Jong-il not only rejected the servile and dogmatic habit of scientific pursuit but also opposed the attitude of scientific research which was divorced from revolutionary practice. Various crimes committed by the factionalists flashed across the mind of Kim Jong-il who was looking at the pavilion which had stood as a witness to the tragic history of the country. www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/champion/65/kimjong.htm   (1517 words)

Kim Il Sung God is dead, long live Kim Il Sung; In a country where Christianity once flourished, the Great Leader stands at the pinnacle of a religious mythology with its own Holy Trinity. Death of Kim Il Sung casts doubt on nuclear negotiations. Dead president's society; North Korea's founding father, Kim Il-Sung, died 10 years ago today. www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0827657.html   (503 words)

NTI: Country Overviews: North Korea: Nuclear Facilities The university has a science library containing more than two million volumes, a gymnasium, museums, a printing and publishing house, and a hospital. The university also has 10 research institutes, 50 laboratories in the medical, agricultural and engineering fields, and 1,200 professors and researchers. This material is produced independently for NTI by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of and has not been independently verified by NTI or its directors, officers, employees, agents. www.nti.org /e_research/profiles/NK/45_505.html   (723 words)

Kim Il-sung University - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music Kim Il-sung University, founded in 1946, is the first university built in North Korea. The university bears the name of Kim Il-sung, the first North Korean Communist leader. Kim Il-sung University - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music education.music.us /K/Kim-Il-sung-University.htm   (261 words)

North Korea and America Later in life he was the foremost student at the Kim Il Sung University and was soon teaching his teachers. At this Congress Kim Il Sung designated Kim Jong Il as his successor, thus establishing the first hereditary dynasty in the communist world, completely against the theory of Marx. Kim Jong Il is steeped in North Korean Stalinism. www.esotericastrologer.org /EA%20Essays/EAessaysPGL13.htm   (1464 words)

item.aspx?user=LiNKorea&tab=weblogs&uid=145016948 My father was a professor of politics at Kim Il-sung University, and my mother taught at the Foreign Language Department of Kim Hyong-jik(Kim Il-sung’s father) University. Prisoners like Kim Chang-bong and Huh Bong-hak who were detained at the Kwan-mo Prison camp were transferred to Hwasung Prison Camp later. Another Teacher said to my sister, "How many times did you do it with the boys when you were at the university?" My sister trembled and said, "I've never done it." He said she was lying, and order her to spread her legs for inspection. www.xanga.com /item.aspx?user=LiNKorea&tab=weblogs&uid=145016948   (4146 words)

Reporters sans frontières - South Korea - North Korea Among the barred websites is that of the Kim Il-sung University (www.ournation-school.com). South Korean telecommunications minister Chung Dae-soon said the website blocking had been approved by an ethics committee as violating the national security law, which forbids putting out material supporting Pyongyang and has been used routinely to jail communist journalists since it was passed in 1948. www.rsf.org /article.php3?id_article=11927   (417 words)

Photos from DPRK Confucian education under the gaze of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il Primary school, Pyongyang; Television lesson People queuing to pay respect to statue of Kim Il Sung on eve of his birthday Others will be scanned and added as time permits. www.vuw.ac.nz /~caplabtb/dprkphoto.html   (111 words)

SSRN-The Use of Numeraires in Multi-dimensional Black-Scholes Partial Differential Equations by Hyong-chol O, Ning WAN, Yong-hua Ro YONG-HUA RO Kim Il Sung University - Centre of Basic Sciences Kim Il Sung University - Centre of Basic Sciences Tongji University; Kim Il Sung University - Centre of Basic Sciences papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=731544   (303 words)

Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ North Korea / Bibliography Seiler, Sydney A. "Kim Il-song, 1941-1948: The Creation of a Legend, the Creation of a Regime." (Master's thesis.) Seoul: Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, June 1992. The Anti-Japanese Armed Struggle of the Korean People Organized and Waged under the Personal Leadership of Comrade Kim Il Sung. Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press, 1978. lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/korea_north/kp_bibl.html   (303 words)

Kim Il Sung University Fifty years have past since the foundation of Kim Il Sung University (October 1, 1946.). In the year following Kor ea's liberation from the Japanese imperialist colonial rule the people built the university by themselves and named it after the great leader president Kim Il Sung in order to convey down through generations the undying revolutionary feats he performed fo r the country and people. The university, covering an area of 1.56 million square meters at the foot of Moran Hill, a scenic spot of Pyongyang, is the first university of the people built in the liberated Korea. www.kimsoft.com /korea/kis-univ.htm   (303 words)

Why War? Keywords: Kim Jong Il He later attended Kim Il Sung University and majored in Political Economy, graduating in 1964. Kim's father, the late Kim Il Sung, fled to the Soviet Union when the Japanese put a price on his head for guerrilla activities in occupied Korea. Kim Jong Il waving to well-wishers during his 2002 trip to Russia, during which he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin for a second time. www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/people/Kim_Jong_Il   (303 words)

BBC NEWS World Asia-Pacific Profile: Kim Jong-il The younger Kim graduated from Kim Il-sung University in 1964, and after a period of grooming for leadership, he was officially designated successor to his father in 1980. He was born in Siberia in 1941 when his father, Kim Il-sung, was in exile in the former Soviet Union. Mr Kim is said to assiduously follow international events on the internet, and some see him as a clever manipulator, willing to take great risks to underpin his regime. news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1907197.stm   (670 words)

CNN.com - Kim Jong Il: Playing a poor hand skillfully - Aug. 21, 2003 He was also Kim Jong Il's mentor, taking charge of his education when he was a student at Kim Il-sung University and serving as his confidant. Kim Il Sung's unique style of Stalinism, suffused with the Korean "juche" philosophy (roughly translated as "self reliance"), was subordinated to the more militant theme of Kim Jong Il's "Red Banner" policy, introduced in 1996. Kim Jong Il's younger brother drowned as a child and his mother died when he was seven years old. edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/06/13/bio.kim.jongil   (1223 words)

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