Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 16, 1941
Died
Dec 17, 2011
Place of Birth
Khabarovsk, USSR
Credits
36 titles
Kim Jong-il
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.
Known For
Filmography
Instadocs: The Prediction Games
Self (archive footage)
Cinema in the Land of Comrade Kim
Himself
Beyond Utopia
Self (archive footage)
Moving
Self (archive footage)
North Korea: A Plan to Survive
Self (archive footage)
King of Clones
Self (archive footage)
Nordkorea – Die Macht der Kim-Dynastie
Himself
How to Become a Tyrant
Self (archive footage)
Spycraft
Self
North Korea: Inside The Mind of a Dictator
Self (archive footage)
Korea, A Hundred Years of War
Self (archive footage)
President
Self (archive footage)
A Friend of Kim
Self (archival footage)
Korea: The Never-Ending War
Self (archive footage)
NHK WORLD PRIME
Self (archive footage)
The Lovers and the Despot
Self - Politician (archive footage)
The Propaganda Game
Self (archive footage)
I Am Sun Mu
Self (archive footage)
Kim Jong-un: The Unauthorized Biography
Self - Politician (archive footage)
Spotlight
Self (archive footage)
Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in PyongYang
Self (archive footage)
Dictator: One Crazy Job
Self (archive footage)
One Day on Earth
Self
Kim Jong-il
North Korean Film Madness
Himself
The Red Chapel
Self (archive footage)
The Schoolgirl's Diary
Producer
Death of a President
Self (archive footage)
Friends Of Kim
Himself (archive footage)
A State of Mind
Himself (archive footage)
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Il is a Great Thinker and Theoretician
Himself
Always Working Together for the People
Himself
North Korea: The Parade
Self
Pulgasari
Executive Producer
Unsung Heroes
Producer
Sea of Blood
Producer