Kim Il-Sung: References & Edit History

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Type Description Contributor Date
Anniversary information added. Jul 04, 2026
Invalidated site: Association for Asian Studies - Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader. Jun 04, 2026
Anniversary information added. Apr 11, 2026
Add new Web site: BBC - Witness History - The Death of Kim Il-sung. Jan 07, 2026
Add new Web site: CNN World - How a plot to kill Kim Il Sung ended in mutiny and murder. Oct 10, 2025
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Late Night Live - Kim Il-Sung, North Korea's tyrannical first leader. Aug 27, 2025
Questions and answers added. Feb 12, 2025
Updated conventional spelling of Pyongyang. Apr 17, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Mar 19, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Kim Il Sung: Partisan from the Edges of Empire (Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism/Anti-Imperialism 2016). Dec 05, 2023
Add new Web site: Association for Asian Studies - Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader. May 17, 2023
Add new Web site: Wilson Center Digital Archive - Kim Il Sung. Apr 04, 2023
Add new Web site: Globalsecurity.org - Kim Il-sung. Oct 07, 2022
Media added. Jan 07, 2021
Add new Web site: PBS - Biography of Kim Il Sung. Dec 19, 2019
Corrected display issue. Oct 01, 2018
Add new Web site: The New York Times - Kim IL Sung dead at age 82; led North Korea 5 decades; was near talks with South. Jan 17, 2017
Add new Web site: Alpha History - Biography of Kim Il-Sung. Jan 17, 2017
Corrected information on his early life. Jan 13, 2014
Added photograph. Mar 07, 2012
Media added. Apr 27, 2010
Expanded discussion of North Korea history during the Kim Il-sung era. Feb 04, 2009
Added new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Kim Il Sung. Mar 06, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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