Cinema in the Land of Comrade Kim
2024 · Movie
as Himself
Kim Jong-il
1941-02-16
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Khabarovsk, USSR
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
King of Clones
2023 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
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Nordkorea – Die Macht der Kim-Dynastie
2023 · Movie
as Himself
Beyond Utopia
2023 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
North Korea: A Plan to Survive
2023 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Moving
2023 · TV Show
as Self (archive footage)
North Korea: Inside The Mind of a Dictator
2021 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Spycraft
2021 · TV Show
as Self
How to Become a Tyrant
2021 · TV Show
as Self (archive footage)
Korea, A Hundred Years of War
2020 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Korea: The Never-Ending War
2019 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
President
2019 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
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A Friend of Kim
2019 · Movie
as Self (archival footage)
NHK WORLD PRIME
2017 · TV Show
as Self (archive footage)
The Lovers and the Despot
2016 · Movie
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
The Propaganda Game
2015 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
I Am Sun Mu
2015 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in PyongYang
2015 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Kim Jong-un: The Unauthorized Biography
2015 · Movie
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
Spotlight
2015 · TV Show
as Self (archive footage)
Dictator: One Crazy Job
2013 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
One Day on Earth
2012 · Movie
as Self
Kim Jong-il
2011 · Movie
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North Korean Film Madness
2011 · Movie
as Himself
The Red Chapel
2010 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Death of a President
2006 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Friends Of Kim
2006 · Movie
as Himself (archive footage)
A State of Mind
2005 · Movie
as Himself (archive footage)
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Il is a Great Thinker and Theoretician
2000 · Movie
as Himself
Always Working Together for the People
1994 · Movie
as Himself
North Korea: The Parade
1989 · Movie
as Self
