Kim Jong-suk

Kim Jong -suk ( born December 24, 1917 in Osan in Hoeryong sub-province Kankyo - hokudo, Chosen Province, at that time the Japanese Empire, present-day North Korea, † September 22, 1949 in Pyongyang, North Korea) was a member of the Korean band of volunteers in the struggle for independence since 1910 into Japanese Empire annexed Korea, second wife of Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong -il's mother and grandmother of the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un.

Life

Kim Jong -suk, was born as the daughter of a poor farmer in the northern Japanese province Chosen. Your family left in 1922 because of the adverse living conditions chosen and moved over into neighboring China. On 10 July 1932, Kim joined the Kim Il-sung, who later became head of state of North Korea, cited Communist Youth League of Korea. On April 25, 1936, she joined a unit of the Korean People's Army in under the command of Kim Il -sung and was in the following year, on January 25, 1937 Member of the Communist Party.

Together with Kim Il-sung, whom she had met in 1935 and married in 1940, Kim Jong -suk went to the Soviet Union. There was born in Wjatskoje in Khabarovsk on 16 February 1941, the joint son Kim Jong -il.

After the surrender of Japan, the family Kim returned with the Soviet Red Army back to the now independent of Japan Korean Peninsula. One year after the proclamation of the " Democratic People's Republic of Korea " (North Korea) Kim Jong -suk died on September 22, 1949 in a miscarriage.

Importance

Kim Jong -suk is revered in North Korea as the wife of " eternal president" Kim Il-sung and as the mother of the " Dear Leader " Kim Jong- il as a saint. Your membership in the guerrilla army and her other work is not in itself of historical significance, this being blurred by the cant by the North Korean " hagiography ". As " Kim Jong -suk - the heroine of the anti-Japanese revolution," it is part of the trinity of father, mother and son ( " The three military leaders from Paektu ") in the quasi-religious worship leader of the official North Korean society. On September 21, 1972 her title was posthumously awarded " Hero of the DPRK " award. In the propaganda, Kim Jong -suk is represented as a woman who recognizes the poverty and suffering of her family and the other poor farmers as a consequence of an unjust social order and from then on, fighting under the influence of the teachings of Kim Il-sung, for a communist revolution. At the same time it is the importance of Kim Il-sung's aware of the fate of the Korean people and is therefore completely devoted to him.