Kim Jong Il (1941-2011)
Kim Jong Il
General Secretary, Korean Workers’ Party (KWP)
Chairman, National Defense Commission (NDC)
Supreme Commander and Marshal, Korean People’s Army (KPA)
Member, CC KWP Political Bureau Presidium
Chairman, Party Central Military Committee (CMC)
Member, Party Central Committee (CC KWP)
Director, CC KWP Organization and Guidance Department
Director (Minister) of State Security
Born
Februrary, 1941, Khabarovsk, Siberia, Russia/
February 1942 on Mount Paektu, DPRK
Education
1948-1950: Namsan Kintergarten, Pyongyang
1952-1953: Mangyongdae Revolutionary School, Pyongyang
1953-1954: Samsok People’s School
1954: Pyongyang Fourth People’s School
1954-1957: Pyongyang First Junior Middle School (Chair, Boys’ League)
1957-1960: Namsan Senior Middle School (Chair, Democratic Youth League)
1960: Political Economy Department, Kim Il-sung University (matriculated 1964)
Career
1961: (July) Initiated membership, Korean Workers’ Party
1964: (June) Cadre, Organization and Guidance Department, KWP
1966: Chief cadre, Organization and Guidance Department, KWP
1967: (May) Section Chief, CC KWP Cultural and Art Guidance Section, Propaganda and Agitation Department
1970: Deputy Director, CC KWP Propaganda and Agitation Department
An undated photo of Kim Jong-il when he was in his 20's.
1973: (June) Director, CC KWP Propaganda and Agitation Department
1973: (September) CC KWP Secretary of Organization and Propaganda
1974: (February) Member, CC KWP Political Bureau
1975: (February) Awarded, Hero of the Republic
Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il at the 6th Party Congress in October 1980. (Photo: Foreign Languages Publishing/KCNA)
1980: (October) Member, CC KWP
Member, CC KWP Political Bureau Presidium
Member, Party Central Military Committee
1982: Deputy, 7th SPA
1986: Deputy, 8th SPA
1990: Deputy, 9th SPA
(May) Vice Chairman, National Defense Commission
1991: (December) Supreme Commander, KPA
1992: (April) Marshal, KPA
1993: (April) Elected, Chairman, National Defense Commission
1997: (October) Elected, General Secretary, CC KWP
1998: Deputy. 10th SPA
Re-elected, Chairman, National Defense Commission
2003: (September) Deputy, 11th SPA
Re-elected, Chairman, National Defense Commission
In August 2008, Kim Jong-il had a stroke and recuperated over the subsequent three months.
2009: (April) Deputy, 12th SPA
Re-elected, Chairman, National Defense Commission
2010: Re-elected, General Secretary, CC KWP
Re-elected, Chairman, Party Central Military Committee
2011: (December) Died of a heart attack on a railway coach
