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Kim Jong Il

Supreme Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011

8 dated entries naming Kim Jong Il, drawn from 8 separate years between 1941 CE and 2021 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1941February 16 – Kim Jong Il, Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (died 2011)source
  • 1980October 14 – The 6th Congress of the Workers' Party ends, having anointed North Korean President Kim Il Sung's son Kim Jong Il as his successor.source
  • 2000May 29 to May 31: Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il makes a state visit to China after 17 years since 1983.source

21st century

  • 201027 August – North Korean leader Kim Jong Il made a second state visit to China.source
  • 2011December 17 – In North Korea, following the death of the country's leader, Kim Jong-il, the official reaction is grief and support for the succession of his son, Kim Jong Un.source
  • 2012April 11 – Kim Jong Un was elected First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, and his father, Kim Jong Il, was given the appellation "Eternal General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea".source
  • 2017February 13 – Assassination of Kim Jong-nam: Kim Jong-nam, the eldest son of deceased North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and the half-brother of current North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, is killed after being attacked by two women with VX nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia.source
  • 2021January 10 – Kim Jong Un is elected as the General Secretary of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, inheriting the title from his father Kim Jong Il, who died in 2011.source

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