Died leader Kim Jong Il Bashny.Net

North Korea's state television reported today of the death of the leader of North Korea, Secretary General of the Workers' Party of Korea - Kim Jong Il. He died on the 70-year life.
Anchorman crying read the information that the head of state, died on Saturday December 17, at 8 hours 30 minutes in the morning, during a trip to the country in his armored train.

The cause of death is still unclear. However, Reuters reports that he died on the road in his car armored train from the effects of overwork

via www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=665231

Kim Jong Il was the head of the [next] North Korea, Secretary General of the Workers' Party of Korea and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, Chairman of the National Defence Committee of North Korea.

According to the official biography of the son of the "Great Leader" Kim Il Sung was born on February 16, 1942 in the family of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Suk in the hut, located on Mount Pekstusan (Korea, county Samdzhiёn). According to legend, at that moment appeared in the sky a double rainbow and a bright star. [next]

At the same time, according to some, Kim Jong Il was born in February 1941 in the USSR, in the village of Vyatskoe (Khabarovsk Territory) and at birth was named Yuri Irsenovich Kim. He spent his childhood in the village Vyatskoe that housed the 88th Separate Infantry Brigade PKKA, one of the battalion commanded by his father - while the captain of the Red Army, and later President of the DPRK.

Since 1961 began the political career of Kim Jong Il. It was then that he joined the Workers' Party of Korea. In 1973 he was was appointed Secretary of the Party Central Committee, and in 1974 became a member of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee, as well as the successor party of Kim Il Sung. In 1980, Kim Jong Il has been a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee and secretary of the Political Bureau and member of the Central Military Commission. Since 1982 he is member of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK. He also supervised the work of intelligence services, organized attacks and explosions.

In December 1991, Kim Jong Il became commander of the Korean People's Army. In 1992 he was awarded the title of Marshal of the DPRK. In 1993 he became Chairman of the Defence Committee of Korea. In July 1994, all the powers of government in Korea were transferred to Kim Jong Il.

October 6, 1994, Kim Jong Il for the first time officially called the "great leader." In 2008, there were rumors about his poor health and stroke. It was reported that in January 2009 he was appointed as his successor his third son, Kim Jong-un.





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