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Awards and decorations received by Kim Jong Il

This is a list of awards and decorations received by Kim Jong Il. According to North Korean sources, North Korea "conferred ... the title of Hero of the DPRK four times, the Order of Kim Il Sung four times, Kim Il Sung Prize two times, 22 orders and 9 medals" on Kim Jong Il. Additionally, "many countries and international organizations conferred 39 orders, 141 medals and 201 honorary titles on him".[1]

Kim Jong Il

North Korean

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Award or decoration Date
  Order of Kim Il Sung (four times) 3 April 1979,
7 April 1982,
7 April 1992,
29 March 2012 		[2][3][4][5]
  Kim Il Sung Prize (twice) February 1973,
29 March 2012 		[6][7][5]
  International Kim Il-sung Prize 16 February 2007 [6][8]
  Hero of the Republic (four times) 15 February 1975,
15 February 1982,
February 1992,
19 December 2011 		[7][9][10][11]
  Order of the National Flag (1st Class with Neck Chain, five times individually and four times with Hero of the Republic) 1982 [7][12][13]
  Order of the National Flag (2nd Class) [7]
  Order of Freedom and Independence (1st Class, twice) [7]
  Order of Freedom and Independence (2nd Class) 1960s [7]
  Order of Soldier's Honor (1st Class) [14]
  Order of Labor (thrice) [7]
  Commemorative Order "Founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" [6]
  Commemorative Order "50th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" [6]
  Commemorative Order "60th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" [6]
  Commemorative Order "Foundation of the Foundation of the People's Army" [14]
  30th Anniversary of the Publication of the Rural Theses Order [14]
  Commemorative Order "60th Anniversary of the People's Army" [7]
  Commemorative Order "40th Anniversary of Fatherland Liberation War Victory" [7]
  Order of the Red Banner of Three Great Revolutions [7]
  Commemorative Order "Capital Construction" [7]
  Commemorative Medal "The Foundation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" [6]
  Commemorative Medal "60th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" [6]
  Commemorative Medal "Fatherland Liberation" [7]
  Merited Service Medal (twice) [7]
  Commemorative Medal "Mt. Kumgang Power Plant Construction" [7]
  Commemorative Medal "Pyongyang-Nampho Highway Construction" [14]
  Commemorative Medal "Huicheon Power Plant Construction" [7]
  Commemorative Order "60th Year Anniversary Of the Fatherland Liberation War Victory" posthumous [15]
Commemorative Order "70th Year Anniversary Of the Fatherland Liberation War Victory" posthumous [16]

Foreign

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Award or decoration Country Date
  National Order of Merit (Grand Cross)   Guinea 20 April 2005 [17]
  Order of Kiyatikun   Laos April 1992 [18]
  Gold Medal of the Nation [es]   Laos [19]
  National Order of Niger [nl] (Grand Cross)   Niger 20 September 1986 [20]
  Order of the Republic (Collar)   Egypt 4 April 1983 [21]
  Order of the Nile (Collar)   Egypt [22]
  Order of Independence (Grand Cross)   Equatorial Guinea 13 April 1992 [23]
  Order of Democracy   Colombia 12 January 1995 [24]
  Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"   Soviet Union [19]
  Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"   Soviet Union 9 May 1985 [25][26]
  Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"   Russia 22 March 1995 [27][28]
  Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg"   Russia 2 December 2005 [29]
  Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"   Russia 10 March 2005 [30]
  Jubilee Medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"   Russia 4 May 2010 [31][32]
  Medal of Zhukov   Russia [33]
  Order of Solidarity   Cuba 31 January 1992 [20]
  National Order of the Leopard (Grand Cordon)   Zaire 1992 [34]
Commemoration Medal of the 80th Anniversary of Independence   Finland [35]
  Royal Order of Cambodia (Grand Cross)   Cambodia 31 July 2004 [36][37]
  Order of National Independence [nl] (Grand Collar)   Cambodia 31 July 2004 [22][37]
Legion of Holy Jerusalem   Palestine 27 July 1993 [25][38]
World Friendship Order   Libya February 2002 [18]
  Order of the Grand Conqueror [cs]   Libya [19]
  National Order of the Thousand Hills (Grand Cross)   Rwanda May 1983 [39]
  Most Brilliant Order of the Sun   Namibia 20 March 2008 [40][41]
  Order of the Most Ancient Welwitschia Mirabilis (1st Class)   Namibia 26 August 2002 [42]
  National Order of the Lion (Grand Cross)   Senegal June 2011 [43]
  Order of Central African Merit (Grand Cross)   Central African Republic 9 July 1983 [44][45]
  Order of Roraima of Guyana   Guyana 4 December 1983 [46]
  Order of the Grand Star of Honour of Socialist Ethiopia (1st Class)   Ethiopia 16 November 1985 [23]
  National Order of Mali (Grand Cross)   Mali 17 December 1992 [20]
Ongulumbashe Medal   Namibia 11 September 1992 [47]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Kumsusan Palace of the Sun. Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House. 2016. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-03-769277-2.
  2. ^ "General Secretary Kim Jong Il's Chronology Part I (1942–1979)". The People's Korea. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2010.
  3. ^ "General Secretary Kim Jong Il's Chronology Part II (1980–1990)". The People's Korea. Archived from the original on 13 March 2003. Retrieved 6 August 2010.
  4. ^ "General Secretary Kim Jong Il's Chronology Part III (1990–1997)". The People's Korea. Archived from the original on 8 September 2003. Retrieved 6 August 2010.
  5. ^ a b Kim Jong Il: Biography. Vol. 4. Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House. 2017. p. 351. ISBN 978-9946-0-1590-3.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g Kwon 2014, p. 12.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Weiser, Martin (8 January 2016). "Chests Full of Brass: A DPRK Political History in Orders, Medals, Prizes, and Titles". Sino-NK. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  8. ^ "Foreigners Feted". KCNA. 16 February 2007. Archived from the original on 12 October 2014.
  9. ^ Kim Jong Il: Biography. Vol. 2. Pyongyang: Foreign Languages Publishing House. 2006. pp. 29–30. OCLC 1052469835.
  10. ^ Lim, Jae-Cheon (2007). Kim Jong Il and His Leadership (Ph. D. thesis). University of Hawaiʹi. p. 162. OCLC 243774934.
  11. ^ "Title of DPRK Hero to Kim Jong Il Represents Korean People's Wish". KCNA. 30 December 2011. Archived from the original on 24 November 2019.
  12. ^ Buzo, Adrian (1999). The Guerilla Dynasty: Politics and Leadership in North Korea. London/New York: I.B.Tauris. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-86064-414-6.
  13. ^ Sessler, Warren E.; McDaniel, Paul (2009). Military and Civil Awards of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Henderson, Nevada: Sessler Incorporated. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-615-28482-8.
  14. ^ a b c d Kwon 2014, p. 13.
  15. ^ Choe 2013, p. 23.
  16. ^ "KCNA | Article | 70th Anniversary of War Victory Medal Conferred on Chairman Kim Jong Il". Korean Central News Agency. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  17. ^ Kim, S. G. 2021, p. 23.
  18. ^ a b Kim 2012, p. 18.
  19. ^ a b c Respected Comrade Kim Jong Il Is a Great Thinker and Theoretician (DVD). Mokran Video. 2000. OCLC 907298789.
  20. ^ a b c Kim, M. Y. 2021, p. 5.
  21. ^ Kim, S. G. 2021, p. 22.
  22. ^ a b Kim 2017, p. 12.
  23. ^ a b Kim, M. Y. 2021, p. 4.
  24. ^ "Order of Democracy". Korea Today. Vol. 745, no. 7. 2018. ISSN 0454-4072.
  25. ^ a b Фото үзэсгэлэн: Энх тайвны төлөөх Ким Жөн Ирийн зүтгэл (in Mongolian). Montsame. 17 December 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  26. ^ Ким 2022, p. 206.
  27. ^ Ким Чен Ир родился у подножия священной горы. К юбилею вождя (in Russian). RIA Novosti. 7 June 2008. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  28. ^ Ким 2022, p. 208.
  29. ^ Ким 2022, p. 211.
  30. ^ "Kim Jong Il receives commemorative medal from Putin". People's Daily Online. 10 March 2005. Archived from the original on 22 January 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  31. ^ "The 65th Anniversary of the Victorious Great Patriotic War (1941–1945) Commemorative Medal". Korea Today. Vol. 755, no. 5. 2019. ISSN 0454-4072.
  32. ^ Ким 2022, p. 213.
  33. ^ "Orders, Medals and Certificates of Honorary Titles Awarded to Kim Jong Il on Display". KCNA. 21 June 2004. Archived from the original on 24 November 2019.
  34. ^ "Gifts, Awards for Kim Chong-il, Kim Il-song Noted". Daily Report: East Asia, Issues 242-252. The Service. 1992 [23 December 1992]. p. 22 – via KCNA.
  35. ^ Kim 2012, p. 19.
  36. ^ "Grand Cross Order of the Kingdom of Cambodia". Korea Today. Vol. 726, no. 12. 2016. ISSN 0454-4072.
  37. ^ a b Johnson, Gareth (9 July 2020). "Cambodia North Korea relations". Young Pioneer Tours. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  38. ^ Korean News. Korea News Service. July 1993.
  39. ^ "The National Grand Cross Order of a Thousand Hills". Korea Today. Vol. 695, no. 5. 2014. ISSN 0454-4072.
  40. ^ "Order of the Sun, and its certificate". Korea Today. Vol. 701, no. 11. 2014. ISSN 0454-4072.
  41. ^ "'Order of the Sun' of Namibia Presented to Kim Jong Il". KCNA. 20 March 2008. Archived from the original on 24 November 2019.
  42. ^ "Namibian supreme order conferred on Kim Jong Il". KCNA. 29 August 2002. Archived from the original on 24 November 2019.
  43. ^ "Grand Cross of National Order of Lion and the Certificate". Korea Today. Vol. 707, no. 5. 2015. ISSN 0454-4072.
  44. ^ "Grand Cross Order of Merit". Korea Today. Vol. 711, no. 9. 2015. ISSN 0454-4072.
  45. ^ "Dear Leader Comrade Kim Jong Il Receives Supreme Order of Central African Republic". Korea Today. 1983. p. 7. ISSN 0454-4072.
  46. ^ Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East, Part 3. Monitoring Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation. 1983. p. A–13.
  47. ^ Kim, M. Y. 2021, p. 7.

Works cited

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  • Choe, Kwang (2013). "In Celebration of the Day of Victory in the Fatherland Liberation War". Pictorial Korea. Vol. 693, no. 9. pp. 23–27. ISSN 1727-9208.
  • Ким, Чхоль Хёк (2022). Новая история корейско-российской дружбы (in Russian). КНДР: Издательство литературы на иностранных языках.
  • Kim, Kyong Hui (2012). "Orders, Medals and Honorary Titles from Many Countries". Pictorial Korea. No. 2. pp. 18–19. ISSN 1727-9208.
  • Kim, Mi Ye (2021). "Infinite Admiration for the Great Person" (PDF). Pictorial Korea. Vol. 782, no. 2. pp. 1–9. ISSN 1727-9208.
  • Kim, Son Gyong (2017). "Boundless Reverence". Pictorial Korea. Vol. 733, no. 2. pp. 12–13. ISSN 1727-9208.
  • — (2021). "Infinite Admiration for Peerlessly Great Man" (PDF). Pictorial Korea. Vol. 792, no. 12. pp. 22–27. ISSN 1727-9208.
  • Kwon, Hyok Chol (2014). "Reverence for the Great Leader". Pictorial Korea. Vol. 698, no. 2. pp. 12–13. ISSN 1727-9208.

Further reading

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  • 위대한 령도자 김정일동지께 드린 훈장, 메달, 명예칭호자료집 [Orders, Medals and Honorary Titles Presented to Kim Jong Il] (in Korean). DPRK. 2013.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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