18 Notable alumni of
Kim Il Sung University
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Kim Il Sung University is 1149th in the world, 246th in Asia, and 1st in North Korea by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 18 notable alumni from Kim Il Sung University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Kim Jong-un
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kim Jong Un is a North Korean politician who has been supreme leader of North Korea since 2011 and the leader of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) since 2012. He is the third son of Kim Jong Il, who was North Korea's second supreme leader from 1994 until his death in 2011, and Ko Yong Hui. He is a grandson of Kim Il Sung, who was the founder and first supreme leader of North Korea from its establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994.
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Kim Jong-il
- Enrolled in Kim Il Sung University
- Studied in 1964
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary personnel
- Biography
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Kim Jong Il was a North Korean politician who was the second supreme leader of North Korea. He led North Korea from 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.
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Kim Jong-nam
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kim Jong-nam was the eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. From roughly 1994 to 2001, he was considered the heir apparent to his father. He was thought to have fallen out of favour after embarrassing the regime in 2001 with a failed attempt to visit Tokyo Disneyland with a false passport, although Kim himself said his loss of favour had been due to advocating reform.
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Ri Sol-ju
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Ri Sol-ju is the current First Lady of North Korea as the wife of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.
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Kim Yo-jong
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kim Yo Jong is a North Korean politician and diplomat. She is the Deputy Department Director of the Publicity and Information Department of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). Since September 2021, she has been a member of State Affairs Commission of North Korea, the only woman on the panel.
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Kim Yong-nam
- Occupations
- politicianambassador
- Biography
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Kim Yong-nam is a North Korean retired politician who served as the President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea, from 1998 until 2019. Previously, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1983 to 1998. He was elected a member of the Presidium of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in 2010.
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Kim Hyon-hui
- Occupations
- spy
- Biography
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Kim Hyon-hui, also known as Okhwa, is a former North Korean agent, responsible for the Korean Air Flight 858 bombing in 1987, which killed 115 people. She was arrested in Bahrain following the bombing and extradited to South Korea. There she was sentenced to death but later pardoned.
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Choe Ryong-hae
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Choe Ryong-hae is a North Korean politician and military officer who currently serves as Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly and First Vice President of the State Affairs Commission, holding both positions since April 2019. Due to holding the first office, he was considered the head of state of North Korea before the country's constitution was amended to transfer this position to the President of the State Affairs Commission, Kim Jong Un. He is also a member of the Presidium of the Politburo and Vice Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). He also served as Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un's military second-in-command, currently being third top-ranking official in North Korea after Kim Jong Un and premier Kim Tok-hun.
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Kim Kyong-hui
- Occupations
- military officerpolitician
- Biography
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Kim Kyong-hui is the aunt of current North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un. She is the daughter of the founding North Korean leader Kim Il Sung and the sister of the late leader Kim Jong Il. She currently serves as Secretary for Organization of the Workers' Party of Korea. An important member of Kim Jong Il's inner circle of trusted friends and advisors, she was director of the WPK Light Industry Department from 1988 to 2012. She was married to Jang Song-thaek, who was executed in December 2013 in Pyongyang, after being charged with treason and corruption.
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Zhang Dejiang
- Enrolled in Kim Il Sung University
- 1978-1980 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Zhang Dejiang is a Chinese retired politician who served as the chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress between 2013 and 2018. He was also the third-ranking member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party from 2012 to 2017.
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Kim Pyong-il
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Kim Pyong Il is the younger paternal half-brother of the former leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Il, and the only surviving son of former leader and president of North Korea Kim Il Sung. He worked as a diplomat and lived overseas between 1979 and 2019, serving in various diplomatic positions such as ambassador of North Korea to Hungary, Bulgaria, Finland, Poland, and the Czech Republic.
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Hwang Pyong-so
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hwang Pyong-so is a North Korean general and politician who held the rank of Vice Marshal (Korean: ́°΅ˆ˜, Ch'asu) in the Korean People's Army (KPA). He was a member of the Presidium of the Workers' Party of Korea and the top-ranking vice-chairman of the State Affairs Commission.
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Andrei Lankov
- Occupations
- historianuniversity teacherorientalist
- Biography
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Andrei Nikolaevich Lankov is a Russian scholar of Asia and a specialist in Korean studies and Director of Korea Risk Group, the parent company of NK News and NK Pro.
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Hyon Chol-hae
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Hyon Chol-hae was a North Korean military officer and politician who was closely tied to the ruling Kim family. He served as Kim Il-sung's bodyguard during the Korean War and reported directly to Kim Jong-il as deputy director of the General Political Department. In 2016, he was promoted to Marshal of the Korean People's Army, the Army's highest rank.
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Kim Yang-gon
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kim Yang-gon was a North Korean politician and a senior official of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea.
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Mohammad-Hassan Nami
- Occupations
- geographer
- Biography
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Mohammad-Hassan Nami is an Iranian military officer.
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Ho Dam
- Occupations
- politicianminer
- Biography
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Ho Dam was a North Korean politician, and Foreign Minister from 1970 to 1983.
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Kim Song-hye
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kim Song-hye is a North Korean politician. As the head of the Secretarial Bureau of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland (CPRK), she has taken part in numerous negotiations between North and South Korea. She has participated in talks at the 2000 inter-Korean summit, the 15th and 16th North–South Ministerial Talks in 2005, the 2007 inter-Korean summit, and most notably the inter-Korean working level talks of 2013 where she headed the North Korean delegation.
