List of international trips made by Kim Il-sung
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Kim chatting with painter Otto Nagel and Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl during a 1956 visit to East Germany.
The following is a list of international trips made by Kim Il-sung during his tenure as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of North Korea. His first international state visit was to the Soviet Union in 1949.
The number of visits per country where he traveled are:[1]
- One visit to Albania, Indonesia, Mauritania and Algeria only Indonesia, Mauritania and Algeria being non communist countries
- Two visits to Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Mongolia, North Vietnam and Yugoslavia
- Three visits to Bulgaria and Romania
- Ten visits to the Soviet Union
- Eleven visits to China
Summary of official trips[]
1949[]
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Kim Il Sung, Anastas Mikoyan, Andrei Gromyko, and Hong Myung Hui passing before the guard of honor at the Yaroslav Station,in Moscow. (March, 1949).
Date(s) | Country | Locations | Leaders met | Details |
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3-25 March 1949 | ![]() |
Moscow | ![]() |
[2][3] |
1950s[]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Kim_Il-sung_in_front_of_Tian%27anmen.jpg/220px-Kim_Il-sung_in_front_of_Tian%27anmen.jpg)
Kim's motorcade in front of Tiananmen Gate.
Date(s) | Country | Locations | Leaders met | Details |
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10-23 September 1953 | ![]() |
Moscow | ![]() |
|
10-27 November 1953 | ![]() |
Beijing | ![]() |
[4] |
28 September-5 October 1954 | Beijing | Attended the Chinese National Day Parade in honor of the 5th anniversary of the PRC.[4] | ||
1-6 June 1956 | ![]() |
Moscow | ![]() |
The August Faction Incident took place.[2] |
7-12 June 1956 | ![]() |
East Berlin | ![]() |
state visit[5] |
13-17 June 1956 | ![]() |
Bucharest | ![]() |
state visit[5] |
17-20 June 1956 | ![]() |
Budapest | ![]() |
state visit[5] |
21-25 June 1956 | ![]() |
Prague Plzeň |
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state visit[5] |
25-26 June 1956 | ![]() |
Sofia | ![]() |
state visit[5] |
29 June-1 July 1956 | ![]() |
Tirana | ![]() |
[6][7][8][5] |
2-6 July 1956 | ![]() |
Warsaw | ![]() |
[9][5] |
6-16 July 1956 | ![]() |
Moscow | ![]() |
[5] |
16-18 July 1956 | ![]() |
Ulan Bator | ![]() |
state visit[10][11][12][5][13] |
4-21 November 1957 | ![]() |
Moscow | ![]() |
Celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution as well as the 1957 International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties.[14][15] |
21-28 November 1958 | ![]() |
Beijing | ![]() |
[16][4] |
28 November-2 December 1958 | ![]() |
Hanoi | ![]() |
[17][18] |
14 January-6 February 1959 | ![]() |
Moscow | ![]() |
|
1 October 1959 | ![]() |
Beijing | ![]() |
Attended the Chinese National Day Parade in honor of the 10th anniversary of the PRC.[4] |
1960s[]
Date(s) | Country | Locations | Leaders met | Details |
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3-25 March 1961 | ![]() |
Moscow | ![]() |
[2] |
17-31 October 1961 | 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | |||
11-15 July 1961 | ![]() |
Beijing | ![]() |
Signing of Sino-North Korean Mutual Aid and Cooperation Friendship Treaty |
November 1964 | ![]() |
Hanoi | ![]() |
[17] |
10-20 April 1965 | ![]() |
Bandung | ![]() |
[3] Kim delivered a landmark speech "On Socialist Construction in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the South Korean Revolution".[19] |
3-7 July 1966 | ![]() |
Bucharest | ![]() |
Comecon Summit |
According to some reports, two secret meetings were rumored to have been held between Kim and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in 1966 and 1968 in the USSR, with the first theorized to have taken place on the Soviet cruiser Varyag.[2]
1970s[]
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Kim Il Sung during a diplomatic meeting between him and Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing, 1970.
Date(s) | Country | Locations | Leaders met | Details |
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October 1970 | ![]() |
Beijing | ![]() |
[20] |
18-26 April 1975 | [21] | |||
22-26 May 1975 | ![]() |
Bucharest | ![]() |
state visit[22] |
26-30 May 1975 | ![]() |
Algiers | ![]() |
state visit[23] |
30 May-4 June 1975 | ![]() |
Nouakchott | ![]() |
[24] He claimed that the visit was "The greatest event in the history of Mauritania".[25] |
4-6 June 1975 | ![]() |
Sofia | ![]() |
state visit |
6-10 June 1975 | ![]() |
Belgrade | ![]() |
[26] |
1980s[]
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1991[]
Date(s) | Country | Locations | Leaders met | Details |
---|---|---|---|---|
3-15 October 1991 | ![]() |
Beijing | ![]() |
[42][3][4] |
See also[]
- List of international trips made by Kim Jong-un
- List of international trips made by Kim Jong-il
- North Korean leaders' trains
- Ilyushin Il-62 (Russian long-range narrow-body jet airliner)
External links[]
- Kim Ir sen v Praze 1984/Kim Il-sung in Prague 1984
- Kim ll Sung and Mao Tse Tung (1970) Video Archive
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