Marking the 110th Birth Anniversary of President Kim Il Sung
Veteran Statesman of World Politics
April 15, 2022 marks the 110th anniversary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung.
President Kim Il Sung performed brilliant exploits deeply etched in human history with his outstanding revolutionary activities.
For over 80 years of his life the President, through his outstanding ideological and theoretical activities and revolutionary practice, put forward the man as the master of the world, shed the light on the road of shaping the destiny of the masses of the people, and opened up a new era of independence.
In his lifetime he travelled 520 000km on 106 occasions to pay official visits to 16 countries in the world, and met a total of 70 000 foreigners, including heads of party, state and government of over 130 countries to give clear-cut answers to the problems arising in the building of new societies and international relations and explain the truth of the revolution.
The international community highly praised President Kim Il Sung as the veteran statesman of world politics.
The great personality and international prestige the President enjoyed as a great man transcending ideas, political views, religious beliefs, social systems, languages and nationalities, are encapsulated in the orders, medals, honorary titles and gifts sent to the President from many countries and international organizations.
More than 480 streets, units and organizations in over 100 countries were named after the President, and over 370 orders, medals and honorary titles awarded to him by many countries and international organizations.
He received over 70 000 gifts from party, state and government heads and personages from all walks of life in more than 170 countries the world over.
Ever since the demise of the President, the progressive peoples of the world have awarded orders, medals and honorary titles to him and sent many gifts.
For his undying exploits performed in the cause of global independence President Kim Il Sung will live forever in the minds of humankind.
President Kim Il Sung meeting heads and deputy heads of state and government of foreign countries, party leaders, presidential envoys and heads of foreign delegations
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Kim Il Sung meeting Mao Zedong, chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
November 1958
Kim Il Sung at the banquet arranged by Zhou Enlai, premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China
November 1958
Kim Il Sung talking to Ho Chi Minh, president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
November 1958
Kim Il Sung being presented with Kimilsungia by Sukarno, president of the Republic of Indonesia
April 1965 
Kim Il Sung being awarded with an order from Hafez al-Assad, president of the Syrian Arab Republic
October 1974 
Kim Il Sung meeting Yasir Arafat, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and commander-in-chief of the Palestine Revolutionary Forces
October 1981 
Kim Il Sung seeing gifts presented by Li Xiannian, president of the People’s Republic of China
October 1986 
Kim Il Sung visiting the People’s Republic of China and talking to Deng Xiaoping, chairman of the Central Advisory Commission of the Communist Party of China
May 1987 
Kim Il Sung seeing gifts presented by Utsunomiya Tokuma, independent member of the House of Councillors of Japan May 1987 
Kim Il Sung talking to Zhambyn Batmonkh, general secretary of the Central Committee of the People’s Revolutionary Party of Mongolia and chairman of the Presidium of the Great People’s Hural of the People’s Republic of Mongolia
June 1988 
Kim Il Sung and Seyed Ali Khamenei, president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, acknowledging the welcoming cheers of the crowd
May 1989 
Kim Il Sung greeting Jiang Zemin, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, visiting the DPRK
March 1990 
Kim Il Sung meeting Kanemaru Shin and Tanabe Makoto from Japan and posing for a photograph with them
September 1990 
Kim Il Sung receiving congratulations on his birthday from Yang Shangkun, president of the People’s Republic of China
April 1992 
Kim Il Sung receiving a medal from Kaysone Phomvihane, president of the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos
April 1992 
Kim Il Sung talking to Maha Vajiralongkorn, crown prince of the Kingdom of Thailand
June 1993 
Kim Il Sung meeting the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist)
October 1993 
Kim Il Sung seeing gifts presented by Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia
April 1994 
Indonesia
Order of the Republic 1st Class
April 1965 
Cambodia
Order of the Royal Court
October 1965 
Syria
Umaya Grand Belt Order
September 1974
Yemen
Order of October 14 Revolution
September 1984
Mongolia
Order of Suhbaatar
April 1987
Vietnam
Order of Gold Star
April 1987 
Palestine
Legion of Palestine
July 1993
Lebanon
Order of the Socialist Progressive Party
October 1994
Jordan
Medallion of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
April 1982 
Thailand
Rattanakosin 200 Medallion
November 1982
Japan
1994 Asian Games Commemorative Medallion
April 1986 
Laos
National Medal of Gold Star
February 1992
Pakistan
Quaid-i-Azam University Honorary Doctor of Laws
April 1987 
Indonesia
Star of Soekarno Award
June 2001 
Nepal
Nepal Journalists Association Honorary Special Membership Certificate
December 2006 
Sri Lanka
Certificate of “The Great Humanitarian of the Century”
April 2012
Embroidery “Tiger”
Mao Zedong, chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
October 1953
Silver tea service
Ho Chi Minh, president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
October 1955
Kimilsungia
Sukarno, president of the Republic of Indonesia
April 1965
Gold-and-silver work “Warrior on camelback”
Hussein I, king of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
July 1979
Ivory tobacco container and ivory carving “Procession of elephants”
Burmese merchant
April 1980
Electric-illuminated glasswork “Peacock”
Standing Committee of the Japanese Society for the Study of Kimilsungism
April 1982
Goldwork “Dragon”
Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Singapore
September 1988
Gong hanging from ivories
General Manager of the Thai Central Steel Co. Ltd., and his party
September 1988
Bronze vase
Seyed Ali Khamenei, president of the Islamic Republic of Iran
May 1989
Silver incense container
Hossain Mohammad Ershad, president of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh
August 1989
Golden dagger
Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah, king of Malaysia
February 1991
Bronzework “Deer”
Family of the administrator of the Group of Ali Ali High Schools and also teacher of Kim Jong Il Class, Karachi, Pakistan
April 1992
Goldwork “Flower basket”
Managing Director of the Nura Import and Export Company, Syria
April 1992
Wooden sculpture “Elephant”
Kaysone Phomvihane, president of the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos
April 1992
Granite sculpture “Eighteen steeds”
Managing Director of the Interchem Company, India, and Managing Director (Indian) of the Texchem Company, Hong Kong
April 1992
Craftwork “Parrot”
Shankar Dayal Sharma, president of the Republic of India
March 1993
Silver container
Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia
April 1994 
Crystal vase
Cultural delegation of the Mongolian government
April 2002
Kim Il Sung arriving at Moscow to visit the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
March 1949 
Kim Il Sung meeting the delegation of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR visiting the DPRK
June 1957
Kim Il Sung after receiving an order from Todor Zhivkov, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Bulgaria and president of the State Council of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria
October 1973 
Kim Il Sung posing for a photo with Josip Broz Tito, president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
August 1977 
Kim Il Sung posing for a photo with L. I. Brezhnev, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
May 1980 
Kim Il Sung talking to Francois Mitterrand, head of the Socialist Party of France
February 1981
Kim Il Sung posing for a photo with Santiago Carrillo, general secretary of the Communist Party of Spain
August 1981
Kim Il Sung receiving an order from the ambassador of the German Democratic Republic to the DPRK
May 1982 
Kim Il Sung paying an official goodwill visit to the USSR and meeting K. U. Chernenko, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
May 1984 
Kim Il Sung receiving the Honorary Citizenship Certificate from Bogdan Bogdanovich, chairman of the Belgrade City Council of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
June 1984 
Kim Il Sung paying an official goodwill visit to the People’s Republic of Bulgaria
June 1984 
Kim Il Sung seeing a gift presented by Agatha Barbara, president of the Republic of Malta
August 1985 
Kim Il Sung meeting Luise Rinser, German authoress
August 1986 
Kim Il Sung seeing gifts presented by Wojciech Jaruzelski, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party and president of the Council of State of the People’s Republic of Poland
September 1986
Kim Il Sung seeing a gift presented by the delegation of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union headed by Alexandra Biryukova, secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU
May 1988
Kim Il Sung meeting Giancarlo Elia Valori, secretary general of the Italian Institute of International Relations
August 1992
Kim Il Sung meeting Ludo Martens, chairman of the Central Committee of the Belgian Labour Party
June 1994
Albania
Order of Freedom 1st Class
June 1956
Czechoslovakia
Order of White Lion 1st Class
June 1973 
Bulgaria
Order of Georgi Dimitrov
October 1973
Yugoslavia
Order of Grand Star
August 1977
Romania
Order of Star 1st Class
April 1982
Malta
Order of the Republic
August 1985
Poland
Grand Belt Order of Merit
March 1987
USSR
Order of Lenin
April 1987
Germany
Order of Karl Marx
April 1987
France
Medallion of Senate
May 1980
Italy
Medallion of the Socialist Party
October 1980
Portugal
Medallion of Poet Luis de Camoes
April 1982
Bulgaria
1300th Anniversary of State Formation Medallion
September 1982
Austria
300th Anniversary of Innsbruck University Medallion
August 1983
San Marino
90th Anniversary of the Socialist Party Medallion
September 1983
Finland
100th Anniversary of Orimattilassa Commemorative Medallion
August 1986
United Kingdom
Medallion of Derbyshire County
November 1986
Greece
Medal of Drama and Letter from the Mayor
March 1987
Spain
Gold Medallion of Madrid Assembly
July 1992
Russia
90th Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution Medal
April 2008
Belgium
Liedekerke Honorary Citizen
April 1987
Jis
I. V. Stalin, general secretary of the Central Committee of All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR
October 1950
Crystal and glass vases
Antonin Zapotocky, president of the Czechoslovak Republic
April 1954
Wooden wine bottles and bronze fruit receptacle
Vulko Chervenkov, chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria
June 1956
Il-14
Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Government of the USSR
September 1958
Gilded cigar case
Josip Broz Tito, president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
August 1977
Porcelain “Maiden and young man playing the pipe”
Francois Mitterrand, head of the Socialist Party of France
February 1981
Silverwork “Following the rays of Juche”
Deputy managing director and section chief of the M. Hembers Company, the Netherlands
March 1983
Wall clock
Agatha Barbara, president of the Republic of Malta
August 1985
Ceramic vase
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany and Chairman of the Council of State of the German Democratic Republic
October 1985
Bronzework “Lances and a shield”
Wojciech Jaruzelski, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party and chairman of the Council of State of the People’s Republic of Poland
September 1986
Ceramic pot and jug
Milos Jakes, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
May 1988
Gold filigree work “Sailing boat”
Chairman of the Democratic Movement of Portugal
September 1988
Golden vessel
Managing Director of Leeward Petrochemical Products Co. Ltd., United Kingdom
April 1991
Gold coin in commemoration of the 700th anniversary of the Swiss Confederation
Flavio Cotti, president of the Swiss Confederation
September 1991
Kim Il Sung receiving the Honorary Doctorate Belt and Diploma from Rashid Touri, president of University of Algiers in Algeria
May 1975
Kim Il Sung talking to Ahmed Sekou Toure, president of the People’s Revolutionary Republic of Guinea
October 1980
Kim Il Sung talking to Julius K. Nyerere, president of the United Republic of Tanzania
March 1981
Kim Il Sung greeting Jose Eduardo dos Santos, president of the People’s Republic of Angola, visiting the DPRK
October 1981
Kim Il Sung seeing a gift presented by Kenneth David Kaunda, president of the Republic of Zambia
April 1982 
Kim Il Sung meeting the President of the African National Congress of South Africa
May 1983
Kim Il Sung seeing gifts presented by Andre Kolingba, president of the Military Committee for National Redressment of the Republic of Central Africa and head of state
July 1983
Kim Il Sung receiving an order from Didier Ratsiraka, president of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar
October 1985
Kim Il Sung seeing gifts presented by Robert G. Mugabe, prime minister of the Republic of Zimbabwe
January 1987
Kim Il Sung seeing gifts presented by Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, president of the Republic of Uganda
April 1987
Kim Il Sung posing for a photo with Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, president of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, after having received an order from him
April 1992
Congo
National Grand Cross Order of Merit
August 1973
Togo
Grand Cross Order of Mono
August 1974
Mauritania
Grand National Order of Merit
May 1975
Benin
National Grand Cross Order
February 1977
Gabon
National Grand Cross Order of Equatorial Star
May 1977
Rwanda
National Grand Cross Order of One Thousand Hills
June 1978
Burundi
National Grand Belt Order
March 1979
Central African Republic
Grand Master’s Collar Order of Merit
June 1984
Mozambique
Order of Eduardo Mondlane 1st Class
July 1984
Burkina Faso
Gold Star Order of Nahuri
September 1985
Ethiopia
Grand Star of Honour Order
November 1985
Niger
National Grand Cross Order
September 1986
Zambia
Grand Companion of Freedom Order 1st Class
February 1988
Libya
Order of Great September 1 1st Class
April 1992
Nigeria
Chieftaincy Title of Sun of Umuozzi Community
April 1995
Silver kettle and plate on a bronze tray
Delegation of the General Union of Working People in Algeria
September 1968
Shellwork “Table lamp”
President of the Mauritius-Korea Friendship Association
August 1970
Ivory vase
Employees of Al Sahafa, government organ of the Democratic Republic of the Sudan
April 1972
Silver kettle, sugar bowl and tea caddy
Muhammad Anwar el-Sādāt, president of the Arab Republic of Egypt
April 1976
Sea coconut
France Albert Rene, president of the Republic of Seychelles
May 1978
Tables and chairs
Gnassingbé Eyadéma, president of the Republic of Togo
June 1981
Stuffed specimen “Stickleback”
Participants in the training course of the immigration officers of the United Republic of Tanzania
April 1982
Ivory sculpture “Crocodile”
Ahmed Sekou Toure, president of People’s Revolutionary Republic of Guinea
November 1983
Table clock
H. Kamuzu Banda, president of the Republic of Malawi
November 1985
Golden vessel
A journalist of the Tunisian newspaper Action
April 1986
Wall clock
Robert G. Mugabe, prime minister of the Republic of Zimbabwe
January 1987
Bronze vase
Muhammad Hosni Mubarak, president of the Arab Republic of Egypt
September 1988
Hornwork “Antelope”
Sam Nujoma, president of the Republic of Namibia
September 1991
Ivorywork “Sun”
Andre Kolingba, president of the Central African Republic
April 1992
Bronze relief “Eagle”
Frederic J. T. Chiluba, president of the Republic of Zambia
July 1993
Chair for the Chieftain
J. O. Mamah, king of Umuozzi Community of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
April 1995
Kim Il Sung meeting Che Guevara, head of the economic delegation of the revolutionary government of the Republic of Cuba
December 1960
Kim Il Sung meeting Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado, president of the Republic of Cuba October 1966
Kim Il Sung welcoming Daniel Ortega Saavedra, coordinator of the Council of the Government of National Reconstruction of the Republic of Nicaragua, who visited the DPRK
March 1983
Kim Il Sung receiving a gift from Maurice Bishop, prime minister of the People’s Revolutionary Government of Grenada
April 1983
Kim Il Sung having talks with Fidel Castro Ruz, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the Council of State and the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba
March 1986
Kim Il Sung being awarded the Medallion of Honorary Doctor by Jorge Razo Arazco, president of Inca Garcilaso de La Vega University of Peru
April 1986
Kim Il Sung receiving a flower basket from Alba Chavez, vice-president of Guayaquil University of Ecuador
May 1990
Kim Il Sung meeting the Managing Director of the Voluntad Publishing House of Ecuador
October 1990
Kim Il Sung meeting Jimmy Carter, former president of the USA
June 1994
Cuba
Order of Jose Marti
April 1982
Venezuela
Order of Miguel Jose Sanz 1st Class
April 1982
Nicaragua
Order of Augusto Cesar Sandino
August 1986
Peru
Condor de Chavin Grand Order
October 1990
Chile
150th Anniversary of the National Congress Gold and Silver Medallions
October 1965
Colombia
200th Anniversary of the National Patriotic Committee of Comunero Medallion
August 1981
Ecuador
100th Anniversary of Guayaquil University Medallion
June 1983
Mexico
Badge in Memory of President Kim Il Sung
September 1995
Venezuela
Carabobo University Council Honorary Member
March 1982
USA
Diploma of Doctor of International Relations Honoris Causa of Kensington University
November 1986
Ecuador
Cuenca Honorary Citizenship Certificate
March 2012
Silver pot with straw
Salvador Allende Gossens, president of the Republic of Chile
November 1970
Silver tray
Maria Estela Martinez de Peron, president of the Republic of Argentina
May 1975
Wooden container, golden star and woodwork “Fish”
Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, prime minister of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana
April 1980
Gold brooch, craftwork and cup made of tin
Minister of Peasantry, Agriculture and Stockfarming of the Republic of Bolivia
August 1981
Oil painting “Ancient life of the Nicaraguan people”
Daniel Ortega Saavedra, coordinator of the Council of the Government of National Reconstruction of the Republic of Nicaragua
March 1983
Oil painting “Roses”
Maurice Bishop, prime minister of the People’s Revolutionary Government of Grenada
April 1983
Goldwork “Tairona soldier”
Delegation of the National University of Colombia
July 1986
Wall clock
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Honduras
September 1988
Silver filigree work “Peasant on horseback”
Alberto Fujimori Fujimori, president of the Republic of Peru
October 1990
The first commemorative coin of the Dominican Republic
Adviser to the President of the Dominican Republic
March 1991
Natural crystal
Delegation of the National Assembly Group of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay
April 1991
Table clock
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Brazilian Communist Party
April 1992
Ceramic work “White crane”
Billy Graham, a US religious leader April 1992
Bronze plate
Jimmy Carter, former president of the United States of America, and his wife
June 1994
Bronzework “Equatorial line tower”
Governor of Bilovan County, Bolivar Province of the Republic of Ecuador
April 2012
Metal sculpture “Benito Juarez”
Mexican Committee for Supporting the Reunification of Korea
April 2012
International Organizations
Kim Il Sung meeting Kurt Waldheim, UN Secretary-General
May 1979
Kim Il Sung meeting the participants in the Extraordinary Ministerial Conference of Non-Aligned Countries on South-South Cooperation
June 1987
Kim Il Sung seeing a gift presented by the Inter-Parliamentary Union
April 1991
Kim Il Sung meeting Federico Major, director general of UNESCO
April 1992
Kim Il Sung posing for a photograph with members of the Summit Council for World Peace
April 1992
Kim Il Sung meeting heads and members of the delegations to the Conference of the Ministers of Information of Non-aligned Countries
June 1993
Kim Il Sung having talks with Boutros Boutros-Ghali, UN Secretary-General
December 1993
Mediterranean Socialists Organization
Medallion of the Mediterranean Socialists Organization 1st Class July 1994
United Nations
Medallion of UN
May 1979
World Intellectual Property Organization
Medallion of WIPO
July 1981
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
Medallion of World Food Day
June 1982
World Health Organization
Medallion of WHO
September 1983
International Telecommunication Union
125th Anniversary of the International Telecommunication Union Medallion
February 1992
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
Medallion of UNESCO
April 1992
International Committee of Red Cross
125th Anniversary of the ICRC Medallion
September 1992
African Peace Foundation
African Peace Award
March 2012
Korean Friendship Association
Korean Friendship Association Medal 1st Class
April 2012
Bronzework “Peacock”
Asian Regional Institute of the Juche Idea
April 1981
Bronzework “A pair of cranes”
Vice Representative of the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific of the International Civil Aviation Organization and his family
March 1982
Coal pot
Organizing Committee of the International Conference of Miners
April 1982
Crystal vase
Secretariat of the International Organization of Journalists
July 1983
Silver tray
President of the International Olympic Committee
September 1983
Crystal glasses on the crystal tray
Senior official of the Human Rights Department of the United Nations
April 1984
Wristwatch, and sugar bowl, teapot and tea jug made of silver
Vishwanath, director of the International Institute of the Juche Idea, and his wife
May 1987
Porcelain vase
Chairman of the World Federation of Democratic Youth
July 1989
Emblem of the Inter-Parliamentary Union
Inter-Parliamentary Union
April 1991
Jewelled work “Tree of hope”
Chairwoman of the Women’s International Democratic Federation
August 2005
Agate work
Chairman of the World Peace Council
April 2012
Goldwork “Eagle”
Slovenian Delegate to the Korea Friendship Association November 2017
