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Kim Il-sung

This is a list of awards and decorations received by Kim Il-sung, founder and first leader of North Korea. According to North Korean sources, the country awarded him "the title of Hero of the DPRK three times, the title of Labour Hero of the DPRK, 26 orders and 3 medals". In addition, foreign countries and organizations conferred upon him 74 orders and 152 medals.[1]

North Korean[edit]

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Award or decorationDate
PRK Order of the National Flag - 1st Class BAR.pngOrder of the National Flag (1st Class with Neck Chain, six times)6 February 1951,
28 July 1953		[2][3][4][5][6]
DPRK Hero of Labour ribbon.gif
Hero of Labor7 September 1958[7]
DPRK Hero of the Republic ribbon.gifHero of the Republic (thrice)28 July 1953,
15 April 1972,
April 1982		[7][8][3][9]
DPRK 20th Anniversary Order.pngOrder Commemoration of the Founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (twice)[7]
FreedomAndIndependence1Ribbon.jpgOrder of Freedom and Independence (1st Class, twice)1953[2][10]
DPRK Medal for Agricultural Merits.pngMedal for Agricultural Merits[11]
DPRK Medal of Military Service Honor.pngMedal of Military Service Honour[11]
DPRK Commemorative Order 60th Year Anniversary Of the Fatherland Liberation War Victory.pngCommemorative Order "60th Year Anniversary of the Fatherland Liberation War Victory"posthumous[12]

Foreign[edit]

Award or decorationCountryDate
Order of Liberty [sq] (1st Class) Albania1956[13]
Gold Medal of the Nation [es] Laos3 February 1992[14]
Order of Lenin (twice) Soviet UnionApril 1972,
14 April 1987		[15][16][17]
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" Soviet Union1969[2]
Order of the Red Banner Soviet Union29 August 1945[18][19]
Medal "For the Victory over Japan" Soviet Union5 July 1956[20][21]
Order of the Yugoslav Star (Great Star) Yugoslavia29 August 1977[22]
Order of Karl Marx (twice) East Germany15 April 1982,
15 April 1987		[10][23][17]
National Order of the Thousand Hills (Grand Cross) Rwanda15 June 1978[2][24]
Star of the Republic of Indonesia (1st Class) Indonesia10 April 1965[25][26]
Order of Georgi Dimitrov (twice) BulgariaOctober 1973,
14 April 1987		[7][27][28][21]
100th Anniversary of the Birth of Georgi Dimitrov Bulgaria28 January 1983[14]
Order of Mono (Grand Cross) Togo11 September 1974[29]
Order of José Martí (twice) Cuba13 April 1982,
10 March 1986		[7][24][30]
Order of Playa Girón Cuba4 April 1987[31][21]
Xirka Ġieħ ir-Repubblika (Honorary Member) Malta1 August 1985[32]
Grand Order of the Star of Honor of Socialist Ethiopia Ethiopia10 November 1985[7][24]
Augusto Cesar Sandino Order [es] Nicaragua25 August 1986[7][24]
Gold Star Order Vietnam9 September 1988[33]
Order of Victory of Socialism [nl] Romania19 October 1988[7][34]
Order of the Star of the Romanian Socialist Republic (1st Class with Band) Romania9 April 1982[35][17]
75-year Anniversary Parliamentary Medal Finland1981[36]
Order of Klement Gottwald Czechoslovakia29 January 1987[37]
Order of the White Lion (1st Class with Collar) CzechoslovakiaJune 1973[38][27]
Order of Polonia Restituta (Grand Cross, 1st Class) Poland5 July 1956[39][40]
Order of the Umayyads (Grand Belt) Syria25 September 1974[17]
National Order of Mali (Grand Cross) Mali18 May 1976[41]
Order of the Star of Palestine [ar] Palestine26 July 1993[42]
Royal Order of Cambodia (Grand Cross) Cambodia9 October 1965[43][26]
Order of National Independence [nl] Cambodia[44]
National Order of Madagascar (Grand Cross, 1st Class) Madagascar6 October 1985[45][21]
Order of Sukhbaatar (twice) MongoliaJanuary 1953,
29 June 1988		[46][31][47]
Order of Eduardo Mondlane (1st Class) Mozambique24 July 1984[48]
Order of the Gold Star of Nahouri Burkina Faso5 September 1985[49]
Order of Operation Bokassa [fr] (Grand Cross) Central African Republic1 May 1978[50]
Order of Central African Merit (Grand Cross with Necklace) Central African Republic1 May 1978[2][50]
November 17 MedalInternational Union of Students17 January 1986[2][21]
Order of Independence (Grand Cross) Equatorial Guinea18 April 1992[51][21]
National Order of Merit (Grand Cross) Guinea24 May 2005[52]
Ongulumbashe Medal Namibia11 September 1992[53][21]
Order of the Equatorial Star GabonMay 1977[54]
Order of Amílcar Cabral [es] Guinea-Bissau15 April 1982[55]
30th Anniversary of Victory Over Fascist Germany [cs] BulgariaJune 1975[53]
Grand National Order of Merit Mauritania30 May 1975[56]
National Order of the Republic Burundi22 March 1979[57]
Order of Merit of the People's Republic of Poland (Grand Ribbon) Poland31 March 1987[58][21]
Order of the Great 1st September Revolution [uk] (twice) Libya30 September 1989,
18 April 1992		[21]
Order of Special Merit Guyana[59]
National Order of the Leopard (Grand Cordon) ZaireApril 1992[51][21]
National Order of Niger [nl] (Grand Cross) Niger20 September 1986[21]
Order of the Grand Companion of Freedom (1st Class) Zambia26 February 1988[21]
Congolese Order of Merit [fr] (Grand Cross) Republic of the Congo14 March 1983[60]
Order of the Nile (Necklace) Egypt4 April 1983[61]

See also[edit]

  • Awards and decorations received by Kim Jong-il
  • Awards and decorations received by Leonid Brezhnev
  • List of awards and honours bestowed upon Fidel Castro
  • List of awards and honours bestowed upon Muammar Gaddafi
  • Awards and decorations received by Josip Broz Tito
  • Orders, decorations, and medals of North Korea

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Works cited[edit]

  • Choe, Kwang Hyok (2012). "Deep Admiration". Pictorial Korea. Vol. 676 no. 4. pp. 28–29. ISSN 1727-9208.
  • Choe, Kwang (2013). "In Celebration of the Day of Victory in the Fatherland Liberation War". Pictorial Korea. Vol. 693 no. 9. pp. 23–27. ISSN 1727-9208.
  • Kim, Son Gyong (2017). "Boundless Reverence of Mankind". Pictorial Korea. Vol. 735 no. 4. pp. 18–21. ISSN 1727-9208.
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  • Tertitskiy, Fyodor (2018). "A Blatant Lie: The North Korean myth of Kim Il-sung liberating the country from Japan". Korea Observer - Institute of Korean Studies. 49 (2): 219–238. doi:10.29152/KOIKS.2018.49.2.219. ISSN 0023-3919.
  • "Kim Il-sung Visits Mongolia, Khabarovsk". Vantage Point. Vol. 11 no. 7. 1988. pp. 15–18. ISSN 1228-517X.