Bits and scraps about the world's most isolated and reclusive dictator and his world:
1941 Born Feb 16 Vyatskoye near Khabarovsk, USSR, to Kim Il Sung & Kim Jong Suk & Known as Yuri Irsenovich Kim (Yuri the Son of Il Sung Kim)
1949 His mother died
1964 Graduated from Kim Il Sung University, majored in Political Economy
1968 Named member of the DPRK (North Korean) Politburo
1969 Director of Propaganda & Agitation (Agitprop)
1973 Lead the "Capture the Three Flags of the Revolution" Movement
1970's Rumored English studies in Malta; came to be referred to as the "Glorious Party Center'
1974 Officially designated as Kim Il Sung's herediatary successor
1980 Party Secretariat, Military Commission, & Senior Member Politburo
1982 Designated the "Dear Leader"
1991 Supreme Commander of the Korean Peoples Army
1994 Kim Il Sung died but remains President of the DPRK
1997 Kim Jong Il named General Secretary of the Korean Workers Party (KWP) & Chairman of the National Defense Commission
2008 Reportedly suffered a stroke and was temporarily incapacitated
Kim Jong Il is known as a womanizer with expensive tastes in Cognac who has amassed a vast collection of motion pictures and written and published on movies, theater, opera--the arts
The Dear Leader on Amazon
Great books! Great Insights!
New Flickr Pictures
Terms of Note
- Juche Sasang (Self-reliant thought)
- Songun (Military first)
- Chin'aehanun Chidoja (Dear Leader)
- Korean Workers Party [KWP] Choson Rodong Dang
- Kim Il Sung (The Fatherly Leader)
The Respected and Beloved Leader
[Kyong'aehanun suryong-nim] - Korean Peoples Army [Choson inmingun]
- Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK)
[Choson Inmin Konghwaguk] - Flags of the Three Revolutions [Ideological, Technical, & Cultural]
- The "Glorious Party Center" -- early epithet for Kim Jong Il
- Youth Shock Troops [Sturmtruppers]
Linking the Dear Leader
- Wikipedia
- Wikipedia is always a good place to start your search for info!
- BBC News Profile
- BBC is usually evenhanded and less parochial than some
- Rotten Dot Com
- A somewhat jaundiced view of the Dear Leader
- My Kim Il Sung Lens
- Intro and overview on Kim Jong Il's father, Kim Il Sung
- Kim in Cartoons from Slate
- Visual humor for you!
- Kim in Cartoons from Slate
- Visual humor for you!
- Kim in Cartoons from Slate
- Visual humor for you!
- http://cartoonbox.slate.com/hottopic/?image=14&topicid=109
- Visual humor for you!
- http://cartoonbox.slate.com/hottopic/?image=14&topicid=109
- Visual humor for you!
Diplomacy or Isolation??
Warning! Blatant Propaganda Alert
It'd Be Funny if it Weren't So Scary!
Netflix Has 6500 Foreign Movies
Just a peek
Look for Joint Security Area (2002), Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
- 001- Crash

Tensions erupt when the tangled lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge over a 36-hour period in the diverse metropolis of post-9/11 Los Angeles. Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Thandie Newton and Terrence Howard co-star in this Oscar-winning Best Picture from writer-director Paul Haggis.- 002- The Departed

To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise in Martin Scorsese's multiple Oscar-winning crime thriller. While an undercover cop (Leonardo DiCaprio) curries favor with the mob kingpin (Jack Nicholson), a career criminal (Matt Damon) rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.- 003- The Bucket List

When corporate mogul Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) and mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) wind up in the same hospital room, the two terminally ill men bust out of the cancer ward with a plan to experience life to the fullest before they kick the bucket. In a race against the reaper, the new friends hit the tables in Monte Carlo, down obscene amounts of caviar and tear up the road in supercharged cars. Rob Reiner directs.- 004- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

David Fincher directs this Oscar-nominated tale of Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt) -- a man who was born old and wrinkled but grows younger as the years go by -- with a screenplay adapted from a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The plot throws linear conventions upside down to explore love, loss and memory from the perspective of a character living under incredibly unique -- and unexpectedly difficult -- circumstances. Cate Blanchett co-stars.- 005- The Pursuit of Happyness

Will Smith earned an Oscar nomination for an inspiring performance opposite his real-life son Jaden in this tearjerker about a struggling single parent who's determined to build a better life for his family. Chris Gardner (Smith) is smart and talented, but his dead-end salesman job barely pays the bills. When he and his son are evicted, they face trying times as a desperate Chris accepts an unpaid internship at a stock brokerage firm.- Try Netflix free for 14 days
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- PortfolioPublicist PortfolioPublicist Oct 23, 2006 @ 6:28 pm
- love the terms of note!
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