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Birthplace of Kim Jong Suk in Hoeryong. Kim Jong Suk (Korean: 김정숙; Hancha: 金正淑; 24 December 1917 – 22 September 1949) was a Korean anti-Japanese guerrilla, a Communist activist, North Korean leader Kim Il Sung's first wife, former leader Kim Jong Il's mother, and current leader Kim Jong Un's grandmother.
Kim Jong Suk was born 24 December 1917 in Hoeryong in (North) Hamgyo’ng Province. Her family and she fled Korea to Yanji, Jilin (Kirin) Province around 1922. In October 1947, Kim Jong Suk presided over the establishment of a school for war orphans in South Pyongan Province, which became the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School. When the school opened in west Pyongyang one year after its foundation, Kim Jong Suk also unveiled the country's first statue to Kim Il Sung.
Feb 24, 2017 · Kim Jong Suk, first wife of Kim Il Sung and mother of Kim Jong Il, is lauded as North Korea’s exemplary communist wife and revolutionary. According to local folklore, Kim Jong Suk excelled at ...
Mar 14, 2024 · Kim Jong Suk, the first wife of Kim Il Sung and the mother of Kim Jong Il, served the people of Korea — all Korea, including the currently occupied South — in their liberation fight, first against the Japanese Empire and, after World War II, against U.S. imperialism. Born to peasant parents at the end of 1917, Kim Jong Suk struggled under a semi-feudal society. Instead of being able to play and be a child, she had to fight to aid her family and the families of others under the reigning ...
Kim Jong Suk, though still a child, worked in the field with her mother and her elder brother by day, and made thread from flax and wove cloth at night by the light of a pine torch. One day, Kim Jong Suk went to pick edible herbs on a nearby hill early in the morning. When she was returning home towards evening with the herbs
Dec 29, 2017 · The birth centenary of "war heroine" Kim Jong-suk is currently being celebrated in a big way there. Kim is no ordinary woman though, but the first wife of North Korea's founding leader Kim Il-sung ...
Dec 25, 2017 · Jong Suk was the first wife of Kim Il Sung, the leader of North Korea when it was established in 1948. Jong Suk was born on Christmas Eve 1917 and died in 1949.
Kim Jong-suk(김정숙, December 24, 1917 – September 22, 1949) was a Korean independence activist, and communist politician. She was the first wife of North Korean President Kim Il-sung , and the mother of Kim Jong-Il , North Korean Great Leader.
Dec 25, 2017 · Kim Jong Suk was born on December 24, 1917 in Hoeryo’ng, present day North Hamgyo’ng Province. She followed Kim Il Sung into northeast China in the mid-1930s, saved his life on one occasion and protected his political career several times. She had three children with Kim Il Sung and served as the DPRK’s first lady until her death from an extra-uterine pregnancy in 1949. View of the platform of the central report meeting held at the People’s Palace of Culture in central Pyongyang on ...
Feb 7, 2018 · A young Kim Jong-il is pictured with his father Kim Il-sung and mother Kim Jong-suk. But his father and predecessor Kim Jong-il was a lot more elusive. He was thought to have had at least four ...
