
Kim Jong-il
Acting • Born 1941-02-16 – Died 2011-12-17
Biography
Kim Jong Il, born Yuri Irsenovich Kim on 16 February 1941, was a North Korean politician who was the second President of North Korea. He led North Korea following the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994 until his own death in 2011, when he was succeeded by his son, Kim Jong Un. Afterwards, Kim Jong Il was declared Eternal General Secretary of the WPK. In the early 1980s, Kim had become the heir apparent for the leadership of North Korea, thus being established the Kim dynasty and he assumed important posts in party and army organizations. Kim was the General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), WPK Presidium, Chairman of the National Defense Commission (NDC) of North Korea and the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army (KPA), the fourth-largest standing army in the world. Kim assumed leadership during a period of catastrophic economic crisis amidst the dissolution of the Soviet Union, on which it was heavily dependent for trade in food and other supplies, which brought a famine. Kim strengthened the role of the military by his Songun ("military-first") policies, making the army the central organizer of civil society. Kim's rule also saw economic reforms, including the opening of the Kaesong Industrial Park in 2003. Following Kim's failure to appear at important public events in 2008, foreign observers assumed that Kim had either fallen seriously ill or died. On 19 December 2011, the North Korean government announced that he had died two days earlier, whereupon his third son, Kim Jong Un, was promoted to a senior position in the ruling WPK and succeeded him.
Filmography
31 credits
Korea, A Hundred Years of War
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)

One Day on Earth
Movie • 2012
Self

North Korea: Inside The Mind of a Dictator
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)

King of Clones
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)

Kim Jong-il
Movie • 2011

Nordkorea – Die Macht der Kim-Dynastie
Movie • 2023
Himself

Beyond Utopia
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)

The Red Chapel
Movie • 2010
Self (archive footage)

A State of Mind
Movie • 2005
Himself (archive footage)

North Korea: The Parade
Movie • 1989
Self

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Il is a Great Thinker and Theoretician
Movie • 2000
Himself

I Am Sun Mu
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)

The Propaganda Game
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)

The Lovers and the Despot
Movie • 2016
Self - Politician (archive footage)

Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in PyongYang
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)

Kim Jong-un: The Unauthorized Biography
Movie • 2015
Self - Politician (archive footage)

Friends Of Kim
Movie • 2006
Himself (archive footage)

North Korean Film Madness
Movie • 2011
Himself

Death of a President
Movie • 2006
Self (archive footage)

Always Working Together for the People
Movie • 1994
Himself

Korea: The Never-Ending War
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)

President
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)

Dictator: One Crazy Job
Movie • 2013
Self (archive footage)

Cinema in the Land of Comrade Kim
Movie • 2024
Himself

North Korea: A Plan to Survive
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)

A Friend of Kim
Movie • 2019
Self (archival footage)

Spycraft
TV • 2021
Self

How to Become a Tyrant
TV • 2021
Self (archive footage)

Moving
TV • 2023
Self (archive footage)

NHK WORLD PRIME
TV • 2017
Self (archive footage)

Spotlight
TV • 2015
Self (archive footage)