Kim Il Sung Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Personal life == {{see also|Kim family (North Korea)}} [[File:Kim Jong-suk and Kim Jong-il.jpg|thumb|upright|Kim's first wife, [[Kim Jong-suk|Kim Jong Suk]], and their son, [[Kim Jong Il]]]] Kim Il Sung married twice. His first wife, Kim Jong Suk (1917β1949), gave birth to two sons and one daughter before her death in childbirth during the delivery of a stillborn girl. Kim Jong Il was his oldest son. The other son ([[Kim Man-il]], or Shaura Kim) of this marriage died in 1947 in a swimming accident. A daughter, [[Kim Kyong-hui]], was born in 1946. Kim married [[Kim Song-ae]] (1924β2014) in 1952, and it is believed that he had three children with her: Kim Yong Il (not to be confused with the [[Kim Yong-il|former Premier of North Korea]] with the same name), Kim Kyong Il, and [[Kim Pyong Il]]. Kim Pyong-il was prominent in Korean politics until he became ambassador to [[Hungary]]. In 2015, Kim Pyong Il became the ambassador to the [[Czech Republic]]; he officially retired in 2019 and returned to North Korea. Kim was reported to have had other children with women who he was not married to.<ref>{{cite book|last=Saxonberg |first=Steven |title=Transitions and Non-Transitions from Communism: Regime Survival in China, Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zQw-RWxrPSUC&pg=PA123 |date=14 February 2013 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-02388-8 |page=123 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160518165953/https://books.google.com/books?id=zQw-RWxrPSUC&pg=PA123 |archive-date=18 May 2016 }}</ref> They included Kim HyΕn-nam (born 1972, head of the [[Propaganda and Agitation Department]] of the Workers' Party since 2002).<ref>{{Cite web| title = After Kim Jong Il| last = Henry| first = Terrence| work = [[The Atlantic]]| date = 1 May 2005| access-date = 1 October 2014| url = https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/05/after-kim-jong-il/303899/?single_page=true| archive-date = 6 October 2014| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141006071353/http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/05/after-kim-jong-il/303899/?single_page=true| url-status = live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page