Kim Jong-il

Kim Jong-il is the highest official in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, holding the offices of Chairman of the National Defense Commission, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, and General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.

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• I am the object of criticism around the world. But I think that since I am being discussed, then I am on the right track.
  • In "Orient Express" by Konstantin Pulikovsky

• Well, Madame Choi, you must be surprised to see that I resemble the droppings of a midget.
  • Remark to kidnapped South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee

• It's all a lie. They're just pretending to praise me.
  • Remark to kidnapped South Korean director Shin Sang-ok (7 March 1983), regarding the people's devotion to him

• Karl Marx made a great contribution to the liberation cause of mankind, and because of his immortal exploits his name is still enshrined in the hearts of the working class and peoples of all countries.
  • http://www.korea-dpr.com/library/206.pdf, 1983, Let Us Advance Under the Banner of Marxism-Leninism and the Juche Idea

• Glory to the heroic soldiers of the People's Army!
  • Remarks at a military review in 1992, and the only occasion of Kim's voice being broadcast http://observer.guardian.co.uk/7days/story/0,,1816145,00.html

• In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of socialism was inseparably linked with their names.
  • Page 13 of 24, 1996, RESPECTING THE FORERUNNERS OF THE REVOLUTION IS A NOBLE MORAL OBLIGATION OF REVOLUTIONARIES, Google book info.

• The Armistice Agreement [that ended fighting in the Korean War in 1953] has, in effect, become a blank piece of paper without any effect or significance.

• I'm an Internet expert too. It's all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions of the North are wired.

• Independence is an attribute of man, the social being; it should not be viewed as the development to perfection of a natural, biological attribute of living matter. This is, in essence, an evolutionary viewpoint. Of course, we do not deny evolutionism itself. Science has long established the fact that man is a product of ages of evolution. Man is a product of evolution, but not his independence. Independence is a social product. Independence is an attribute given to man by society, not nature; it is not a natural gift, but has been formed and developed socially and historically.

• • "On some questions in understanding the Juche philosophy", speech delivered to theoretical propagandists of the Party, April 2, 1974

Video clips

• Kim Jong Il The Great Diplomat
• Dear Leader Kim Jong Il The Great Brilliant Commander
• North Korean leader makes appearance