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Do not fill this in! == Awards == {{Main|Awards and decorations received by Kim Il Sung}} According to North Korean sources, Kim Il Sung had received 230 foreign orders, medals and titles from 70 countries since the 1940s until, and after, his death.<ref>{{cite book|translator1=Kim Yong-nam|translator2=Kim Kyong-il|translator3=Kim Jong-shm|editor1=Jo Am|editor2=An Chol-gang|title=Korea in the 20th Century: 100 Significant Events|year=2002|publisher=[[Foreign Languages Publishing House (North Korea)|Foreign Languages Publishing House]]|location=Pyongyang|oclc=276996886|page=162|chapter=The Foreign Orders and Honorary Titles Awarded to President Kim Il Sung}}</ref> They include: The Soviet [[Order of the Red Banner]] and the [[Order of Lenin]] (twice),<ref>{{cite book|last=Westad|first=Odd Arne|title=The Cold War: A World History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gMpXDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT190|year=2017|publisher=Basic Books|location=New York|isbn=978-0-465-09313-7|page=190|access-date=21 June 2018|archive-date=14 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014020446/https://books.google.com/books?id=gMpXDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT190|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Bowker/> [[Star of the Republic of Indonesia]] (first class), the Bulgarian [[Order of Georgi Dimitrov]] (twice), the Togolese [[Order of Mono]] (Grand Cross), the [[Order of the Yugoslav Star]] (Great Star),<ref>{{Cite book|last=Acović|first=Dragomir|title=Slava i čast: Odlikovanja među Srbima, Srbi među odlikovanjima|year=2012|location=Belgrade|publisher=Službeni Glasnik|pages=605}}</ref> the Cuban [[Order of José Martí]] (twice), the East German [[Order of Karl Marx]] (twice), the Maltese [[Xirka Ġieħ ir-Repubblika]], the Burkinabe [[Order of the Gold Star of Nahouri]], [[Order of the Grand Star of Honour of Socialist Ethiopia]], the Nicaraguan {{ill|Augusto Cesar Sandino Order|es|Orden Augusto César Sandino}}, the Vietnamese [[Gold Star Order]],<ref name=Bowker/> the Czechoslovak [[Order of Klement Gottwald]],<ref>{{Cite web | title = Řád Klementa Gottwalda: za budování socialistické vlasti | publisher = Archiv Kanceláře Prezidenta Republiky | date = 17 January 2015 | access-date = 21 June 2018 | url = http://www.prazskyhradarchiv.cz/archivKPR/upload/rkg.pdf#page=11 | page = 11 | language = cs | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160822183204/http://www.prazskyhradarchiv.cz/archivKPR/upload/rkg.pdf#page=11 | archive-date = 22 August 2016 | url-status = dead }}</ref> the [[Royal Order of Cambodia]] (Grand Cross),<ref>{{cite book|title=News from Hsinhua News Agency: Daily Bulletin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pqIcAQAAMAAJ|date=1 October 1965|publisher=Xin hua tong xun she|location=London|oclc=300956682|page=53|access-date=21 June 2018|archive-date=14 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014020446/https://books.google.com/books?id=pqIcAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[National Order of Madagascar]] (first class, Grand Cross),<ref>{{cite book|title=Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East, Part 3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q2jVAAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Monitoring Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation|location=Reading|oclc=976978783|access-date=21 June 2018|archive-date=14 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014020447/https://books.google.com/books?id=q2jVAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> the Mongolian [[Order of Sukhbaatar]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Sanders|first=Alan J. K.|title=Historical Dictionary of Mongolia|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5JN83EDDLl4C&pg=PA551|edition=Third|year=2010|publisher=Scarecrow Press|location=Lanham|isbn=978-0-8108-7452-7|page=551|chapter=Orders and medals|access-date=21 June 2018|archive-date=14 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014020447/https://books.google.com/books?id=5JN83EDDLl4C&pg=PA551|url-status=live}}</ref> and the Romanian orders of [[Order of Victory of Socialism]] and [[Order of the Star of the Romanian Socialist Republic]] (first class with band).<ref name=Bowker>{{cite book|title=Who's Who in Asian and Australasian Politics|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ge25AAAAIAAJ|year=1991|publisher=Bowker-Saur|location=London|isbn=978-0-86291-593-3|page=146|chapter=Kim Il Sung}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|journal=Korea Today|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F1xDAAAAYAAJ|issue=304–315|year=1982|publisher=[[Foreign Languages Publishing House (North Korea)|Foreign Languages Publishing House]]|location=Pyongyang|issn=0454-4072|page=58|title=Gifts of World People|access-date=21 June 2018|archive-date=14 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221014020448/https://books.google.com/books?id=F1xDAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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