Historical Figure
Kim Jong-il
1941–2011
Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011
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Key Dates
Birth
1941 February 16, 1941 →Biography
Kim Jong Il was a North Korean politician and dictator who was the second supreme leader of North Korea from the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994 until his own death in 2011. Posthumously, Kim Jong Il was declared an Eternal Leader of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).
Timeline
Kim Jong-il begins to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
July 8 →Kim Jong-il wird als Nachfolger seines bereits 1994 verstorbenen Vaters Kim Il-sung formell Generalsekretär der nordkoreanischen Staatspartei PdAK.
October 8 →President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
June 13 →President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
October 2 →North Korean commander and politician, 2nd Supreme Leader of North Korea (b. 1941)
December 17 →More from the Interwar & WWII
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