Kim Il (politician)

Kim Il (* 1912/14 in the district Chientao, Manchuria; † 9 March 1984) was a North Korean politicians.

Kim Il joined after completing his education in 1933 fighting for the independence of Korea from Japan guerrilla group to the later North Korean leader Kim Il-sung. In 1936, he was political commissar of the guerrilla army and went in 1940, before the expansion of Japan in Manchuria retreating, with Kim Il-sung after Wjatskoje in Siberia.

After the Japanese surrender, he returned to the Korean peninsula and where he was appointed the first secretary of the Communist Party in the district P'yŏngan - pukto. In 1946 he became a member of the Central Committee and the Politburo. From 1947 he worked in the Ministry of National Security. The mid-1950s he was actively involved in the elimination of the sole rule of Kim Il-sung standing in the way of intra-party groups. At this time he was Deputy Minister of Agriculture as Chairman of the Council of Ministers.

After the constitutional amendment in 1972, Kim Il-sung went to the newly formed office of president. Kim Il took over the vacant position of Prime Minister (Chairman of the Council of Ministers ) and remained in this position until his resignation for health reasons in 1976. Thereafter, he held the prestigious position of Vice President until his death.

Kim Il died 1984. He was considered the number two in the party hierarchy North Korea.