Kim Jong Il

== Published works ==
{{main|Kim Jong Il bibliography}}
[[File:Kim Jong Il Books (33012753981).jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|Books written by Kim Jong Il]]
According to North Korean sources, Kim published some 890 works during a period of his career from June 1964 to June 1994.<ref>{{Cite web | title = 1. A Great Thinker and Theoretician | work=[[Naenara]] | date = May 2008 | access-date = 11 December 2015 | url = http://www.naenara.com.kp/en/juche/great.php?great+1+1-01#contents | archive-date = 21 February 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160221043246/http://naenara.com.kp/en/juche/great.php?great+1+1-01#contents | url-status = dead }}</ref> According to KCNA, the number of works from 1964 to 2001 was 550.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Over 530 works of Kim Jong Il published |publisher=[[Korean Central News Agency]] |date=8 June 2001 |access-date=6 May 2016 |archive-date=12 October 2014 |url=http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2001/200106/news06/18.htm#9 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012063225/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2001/200106/news06/18.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2000, it was reported that the [[Workers' Party of Korea Publishing House]] has published at least 120 works by Kim.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Over 120 works of Kim Jong Il brought out |publisher=[[Korean Central News Agency]] |date=26 December 2000 |access-date=29 February 2016 |url=http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2000/200012/news12/26.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012070821/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2000/200012/news12/26.htm |archive-date=12 October 2014 }}</ref> In 2009, KCNA put the numbers as follows:
{{blockquote|text=At least 354,000 copies of [Kim Jong Il's works] were translated into nearly 70 languages and came off the press in about 80 countries in the new century.

There were more than 500 activities for studying and distributing the works in at least 120 countries and regions in 2006. The following year witnessed a total of more than 600 events of diverse forms in at least 130 countries and regions. And 2008 saw at least 3,000 functions held in over 150 countries and regions for the same purpose.<ref>{{Cite web | title = Kim Jong Il Authors Lots of Works | publisher=[[Korean Central News Agency]] | date = 25 August 2009 | access-date = 6 May 2016 | archive-date=12 October 2014 | url=http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2009/200908/news25/20090825-03ee.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141012052403/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2009/200908/news25/20090825-03ee.html }}</ref>}}

The ''Selected Works of Kim Jong Il (Enlarged Edition)'', whose publishing has continued posthumously, runs into volume 24 in Korean<ref>{{Cite web | title = 'Selected Works of Kim Jong Il' (Enlarged Edition) Vol. 24 Off Press | publisher=[[Korean Central News Agency]] | date = 22 November 2014 | access-date = 6 March 2016 | archive-date = 24 November 2019 | url = http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2014/201411/news22/20141122-14ee.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191124025732/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2014/201411/news22/20141122-14ee.html | url-status = dead }}</ref> and to volume 15 in English.<ref name="KPEA2011">{{cite book|title=Korea Publications Exchange Association catalogue|url=http://www.nordkorea-info.de/files/KPEA-Catalogue-2015-10-HP_7xtn9yg0.pdf#27|publisher=Korea Publications Exchange Association|page=[27]|year=2015|access-date=12 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170402162111/http://www.nordkorea-info.de/files/KPEA-Catalogue-2015-10-HP_7xtn9yg0.pdf#27|archive-date=2 April 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> Volumes three to eight were never published in English.<ref name="nort_Sele">{{Cite web|title=Selected Works |work=north-korea-books.com |access-date=6 May 2016 |url=http://www.north-korea-books.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=1_18_46 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160430004204/http://www.north-korea-books.com/index.php?route=product%2Fcategory&path=1_18_46 |archive-date=30 April 2016}}</ref>

The ''Complete Collection of Kim Jong Il's Works'' is currently in volume 13.<ref>{{Cite web|work=[[Rodong Sinmun]] |title='Complete Collection of Kim Jong Il's Works' Vol. 13 Published |date=6 May 2016 |access-date=6 May 2016 |url=http://www.rodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?strPageID=SF01_02_01&newsID=2016-05-05-0014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513233841/http://www.rodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?strPageID=SF01_02_01&newsID=2016-05-05-0014 |archive-date=13 May 2016}}</ref> There is a "Kim Jong Il's Works Exhibition House" dedicated to his works in North Korea, holding 1,100 of his works and manuscripts.<ref>{{Cite web | title = Service Personnel, People Visit Kim Jong Il's Works Exhibition House | publisher=[[Korean Central News Agency]] | date = 18 February 2015 | access-date = 6 March 2016 | url = http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2015/201502/news18/20150218-14ee.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191124075509/http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2015/201502/news18/20150218-14ee.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 24 November 2019 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>

In his teens and university years, Kim had written poems.<ref>{{Cite web | title = 23. Leader Kim Jong Il, genius of literature and art | work=[[Naenara]] | date = March 2010 | access-date = 11 December 2015 | url = http://www.naenara.com.kp/en/juche/great.php?great+1+1-23#contents | archive-date = 21 February 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160221043338/http://naenara.com.kp/en/juche/great.php?great+1+1-23#contents | url-status = dead }}</ref> He also wrote song lyrics.<ref name="lyr">{{Cite web | title = Song lyrics by Kim Jong Il | work=[[Naenara]] | access-date = 11 February 2016 | url = http://www.naenara.com.kp/en/society/hymn_music.php?c | archive-date = 21 February 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160221125937/http://naenara.com.kp/en/society/hymn_music.php?c | url-status = dead }}</ref> His first major literary work was ''[[On the Art of the Cinema]]'' in 1973.{{sfn|Lim|2015|p=28}}