"Kim Jong-il, also written as Kim Jong Il, birth name Yuri Irsenovich Kim (according to Soviet records)[2][3][4][5] (born 16 February 1941 (Soviet records) or 16 February 1942 (North Korean records) – 17 December 2011[6]), was the Supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)."
"Personality
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Like his father, Kim had a fear of flying,[107] and always traveled by private armored train for state visits to Russia and China. The BBCreported that Konstantin Pulikovsky, a Russian emissary who traveled with Kim across Russia by train, told reporters that Kim had livelobsters air-lifted to the train every day.[108]
Kim was said to be a huge film fan, owning a collection of more than 20,000 video tapes and DVDs.[109] His reported favorite movie franchises included Friday the 13th, Rambo, Godzilla, and Hong Kong action cinema,[110] and any movie starring Elizabeth Taylor.[111] He was the author of the book On the Art of the Cinema. In 1978, on Kim's orders, South Korean film director Shin Sang-ok and his actress wife Choi Eun-hee were kidnapped in order to build a North Korean film industry.[112] In 2006 he was involved in the production of the Juche-based movie Diary of a Girl Student – depicting the life of a girl whose parents are scientists – with a KCNA news report stating that Kim "improved its script and guided its production".[113]
Although Kim enjoyed many foreign forms of entertainment, according to former bodyguard Lee Young Kuk, he refused to consume any food or drink not produced in North Korea, with the exception of wine from France.[114] His former chef Kenji Fujimoto, however, has stated that Kim has sometimes sent him around the world to purchase a variety of foreign delicacies.[115]
Kim reportedly enjoyed basketball. Former United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright ended her summit with Kim by presenting him with a basketball signed by NBA legend Michael Jordan.[116] Also an apparent golfer, North Korean state media reports that Kim routinely shot three or four holes-in-one per round.[117] His official biography also claims that Kim composed six operas and enjoys staging elaborate musicals.[118] Kim also referred to himself as an Internet expert.[119]
US Special Envoy for the Korean Peace Talks, Charles Kartman, who was involved in the 2000 Madeleine Albright summit with Kim, characterised Kim Jong-il as a reasonable man in negotiations, to the point, but with a sense of humor and personally attentive to the people he was hosting.[120] However, psychological evaluations conclude that Kim Jong-il's antisocial features, such as his fearlessness in the face of sanctions and punishment, serve to make negotiations extraordinarily difficult.[121]
The field of psychology has long been fascinated with the personality assessment of dictators, a notion that resulted in an extensive personality evaluation of Kim Jong-il. The report, compiled by Frederick L. Coolidge and Daniel L. Segal (with the assistance of a South Korean psychiatrist considered an expert on Kim Jong-il's behavior), concluded that the “big six” group of personality disorders shared by dictators Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Saddam Hussein (sadistic, paranoid, antisocial, narcissistic, schizoid and schizotypal) were also shared by Kim Jong-il—coinciding primarily with the profile of Saddam Hussein.[121] The evaluation also finds that Kim Jong-il appeared to pride himself on North Korea's independence, despite the extreme hardships it appears to place on the North Korean people—an attribute appearing to emanate from his antisocial personality pattern.[121] This notion also encourages other cognitive issues, such as self-deception, as subsidiary components to Kim Jong-il's personality. Many of the stories about Kim Jong Il's eccentricities and decadent life-style are exaggerated, possibly circulated by South Korean intelligence to discredit the Northern regime.[122] Defectors claim that Kim has 17 different palaces and residences all over North Korea, including a private resort near Baekdu Mountain, a seaside lodge in the city of Wonsan, and a palace complex northeast of Pyongyang surrounded with multiple fence lines, bunkers and anti-aircraft batteries.[123]
Finances
According to the Sunday Telegraph, Kim had US$4 billion on deposit in European banks in case he ever needed to flee North Korea. TheSunday Telegraph reported that most of the money was in banks in Luxembourg.[124]"
| Kim Jong-il 김정일 金正日 | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Supreme Leader of North Korea | |
| In office 8 July 1994 – 17 December 2011[1] | |
| President | Kim Yong-nam |
| Premier | Hong Song-nam Pak Pong-ju Kim Yong-il Choe Yong-rim |
| Preceded by | Kim Il-sung |
| Succeeded by | TBD |
| Chairman of the National Defence Commission of North Korea | |
| In office 9 April 1993 – 17 December 2011 | |
| Deputy | Jo Myong-rok |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | TBD |
| Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army | |
| In office 24 December 1991 – 17 December 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Kim Il-sung |
| Succeeded by | TBD |
| General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea | |
| In office 8 October 1997 – 17 December 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Kim Il-sung |
| Succeeded by | TBD |
| Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Worker's Party of Korea | |
| In office 8 October 1997 – 17 December 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Kim Il-sung |
| Succeeded by | TBD |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Yuri Irsenovich Kim 16 February 1941 Vyatskoye, Soviet Union(Soviet records) 16 February 1942 Baekdu Mountain, Japanese Korea (North Korean records) |
| Died | 19 December 2011 (aged 69) |
| Political party | Workers' Party of Korea |
| Spouse(s) | Kim Young-sook Song Hye-rim Ko Young-hee Kim Ok |
| Children | Kim Sul-song Kim Jong-nam Kim Jong-chul Kim Jong-un |
| Alma mater | Kim Il-sung University University of Malta[citation needed] |
| Signature |  |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  North Korea |
| Service/branch | Korean People's Army |
| Years of service | 1991–2011 |
| Rank | Wonsu |
| Commands | Supreme Commander |
| Kim Jong-il | |
|---|---|
| Chosŏn'gŭl | 김정일 |
| Hancha | 金正日 |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kim Chŏngil |
| Revised Romanization | Gim Jeong(-)il |
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| http://dorincard.blogspot.com/search?q=dprk ============ See some DPRK stamps on MAXICARDS from WWF. |
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