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List of international trips made by Kim Il Sung

The following is a list of international trips made by Kim Il Sung during his tenure as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Premier and President of North Korea. His first international state visit was to the Soviet Union in 1949.

Kim chatting with painter Otto Nagel and Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl during a 1956 visit to East Germany.

The number of visits per country where he traveled are:[1]

Summary of official trips edit

1949 edit

 
Kim Il Sung, Anastas Mikoyan, Andrei Gromyko, Pak Huen Yung and Hong Myung Hui passing before the guard of honor at the Yaroslav Station,in Moscow. (March, 1949).
Date(s) Country Locations Leaders met Details
3-25 March 1949   Soviet Union Moscow   Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin [2][3]

1950s edit

 
Kim's motorcade in front of Tiananmen Gate.
Date(s) Country Locations Leaders met Details
10-23 September 1953   Soviet Union Moscow   Premier of the Soviet Union Georgy Malenkov
10-27 November 1953   China Beijing   Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong [4]
28 September-5 October 1954 Beijing Attended the Chinese National Day Parade in honor of the 5th anniversary of the PRC.[4]
1-6 June 1956   Soviet Union Moscow   First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev The August Faction Incident took place.[2]
7-12 June 1956   East Germany East Berlin   President of East Germany Wilhelm Pieck state visit[5]
13-17 June 1956   Romania Bucharest   General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej state visit[5]
17-20 June 1956   Hungary Budapest   Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic Mátyás Rákosi state visit[5]
21-25 June 1956   Czechoslovakia Prague
Plzeň 		  First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and President of Czechoslovakia Antonín Zápotocký state visit[5]
25-26 June 1956   Bulgaria Sofia   General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party Todor Zhivkov state visit[5]
29 June-1 July 1956   Albania Tirana   First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania Enver Hoxha [6][7][8][5]
2-6 July 1956   Poland Warsaw   First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party Edward Ochab [9][5]
6-16 July 1956   Soviet Union Moscow   First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev [5]
16-18 July 1956   Mongolian People's Republic Ulan Bator   General Secretary of the Mongolian People's Party Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal state visit[10][11][12][5][13]
4-21 November 1957   Soviet Union Moscow   First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev Celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution as well as the 1957 International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties.[14][15]
21-28 November 1958   China Beijing   Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong [16][4]
28 November-2 December 1958   North Vietnam Hanoi   Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh [17][18]
14 January-6 February 1959   Soviet Union Moscow   First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev
1 October 1959   China Beijing   Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong Attended the Chinese National Day Parade in honor of the 10th anniversary of the PRC.[4]

1960s edit

Date(s) Country Locations Leaders met Details
3-25 March 1961   Soviet Union Moscow   First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev [2]
17-31 October 1961 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
11-15 July 1961   China Beijing   Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong Signing of Sino-North Korean Mutual Aid and Cooperation Friendship Treaty
November 1964   North Vietnam Hanoi   Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh [17]
10-20 April 1965   Indonesia Bandung   President of Indonesia Sukarno [3] Kim delivered a landmark speech "On Socialist Construction in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the South Korean Revolution".[19]
3-7 July 1966   Romania Bucharest   General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party Nicolae Ceaușescu Comecon Summit

According to some reports, two secret meetings were rumored to have been held between Kim and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in 1966 and 1968 in the USSR, with the first theorized to have taken place on the Soviet cruiser Varyag.[2]

1970s edit

 
Kim Il Sung during a diplomatic meeting between him and Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing, 1970.
Date(s) Country Locations Leaders met Details
October 1970   China Beijing   Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong [20]
18-26 April 1975 [21]
22-26 May 1975   Romania Bucharest   President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu state visit[22]
26-30 May 1975   Algeria Algiers   Chairman of Revolutionary CouncilHouari Boumédiène state visit[23]
30 May-4 June 1975   Mauritania Nouakchott   President of Mauritania Moktar Ould Daddah [24] He claimed that the visit was "The greatest event in the history of Mauritania".[25]
4-6 June 1975   Bulgaria Sofia   General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party Todor Zhivkov state visit
5-10 June 1975   Yugoslavia Brdo pri Kranju,[26] Bled,[27] Lake Bohinj,[28] Ljubljana[29]   President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito[30] [31]

1980s edit

 
Kim with Erich Honecker in East Berlin.
Date(s) Country Locations Leaders met Details
7-9 May 1980   Yugoslavia Belgrade   President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia Lazar Koliševski Death and state funeral of Josip Broz Tito
9-13 May 1980   Romania Bucharest   President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu state visit[32][33]
15-26 September 1982   China Beijing
Chengdu 		  Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Deng Xiaoping [34][4]
2-12 June 1983 Beijing   General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Hu Yaobang [4]
16-27 May 1984   Soviet Union Moscow
Minsk[35][2][3] 		  General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Konstantin Chernenko state visit[36][37]
27-29 May 1984   Poland Warsaw   First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party and Chairman of the Council of State Wojciech Jaruzelski [38][3][39]
29 May-4 June 1984   East Germany East Berlin   General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany Erich Honecker state visit[40][3]
4-7 June 1984   Czechoslovakia Prague   First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and President of Czechoslovakia Gustáv Husák state visit[41][42][3]
7-10 June 1984   Hungary Budapest   General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party János Kádár state visit[43][3]
10-15 June 1984   Bulgaria Sofia   General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party Todor Zhivkov state visit[44][45][3]
22-27 October 1986   Soviet Union Moscow   General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev [2]
20-23 May 1987   China Beijing   General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Zhao Ziyang [4]
25 June-1 July 1988   Mongolia Ulan Bator   General Secretary of the Mongolian People's Party Jambyn Batmönkh state visit[46]

1991 edit

Date(s) Country Locations Leaders met Details
3-15 October 1991   China Beijing   President of the People's Republic of China Yang Shangkun [47][3][4]

See also edit

References edit

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