List of international trips made by Kim Il Sung

Kim chatting with painter Otto Nagel and Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl during a 1956 visit to East Germany

The following is a list of international trips made by Kim Il Sung during his tenure as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Premier and President of North Korea. His first international state visit was to the Soviet Union in 1949.

The number of visits per country where he traveled are:[1]

Summary of official trips

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1949

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Kim Il Sung, Anastas Mikoyan, Andrei Gromyko, Pak Huen Yung and Hong Myung Hui passing before the guard of honor at the Yaroslav Station in Moscow, March 1949
Date(s) Country Locations Leaders met Details
3-25 March 1949  Soviet Union Moscow Soviet Union Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin [2][3]

1950s

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Kim's motorcade in front of the Tiananmen, 22 November 1958
Date(s) Country Locations Leaders met Details
10-23 September 1953  Soviet Union Moscow Soviet Union Premier of the Soviet Union Georgy Malenkov State visit.
10-27 November 1953  China Beijing China Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong State visit.[4]
28 September-5 October 1954 Beijing Attended the Chinese National Day Parade in honor of the 5th anniversary of the PRC.[4]
1-6 June 1956  Soviet Union Moscow Soviet Union First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev The August Faction Incident took place.[2]
7-12 June 1956  East Germany East Berlin East Germany President of East Germany Wilhelm Pieck State visit.[5]
13-17 June 1956 Socialist Republic of Romania Romania Bucharest Socialist Republic of Romania General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej State visit.[5]
17-20 June 1956 Hungarian People's Republic Hungary Budapest Hungarian People's Republic Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic Mátyás Rákosi State visit.[5]
21-25 June 1956  Czechoslovakia Prague
Plzeň 		Czechoslovak Socialist Republic First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and President of Czechoslovakia Antonín Zápotocký State visit.[5]
25-26 June 1956 People's Republic of Bulgaria Bulgaria Sofia People's Republic of Bulgaria General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party Todor Zhivkov state visit[5]
29 June-1 July 1956 People's Socialist Republic of Albania Albania Tirana People's Socialist Republic of Albania First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania Enver Hoxha [6][7][8][5]
2-6 July 1956  Poland Warsaw Poland First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party Edward Ochab [9][5]
6-16 July 1956  Soviet Union Moscow Soviet Union First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev [5]
16-18 July 1956  Mongolian People's Republic Ulan Bator Mongolian People's Republic General Secretary of the Mongolian People's Party Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal State visit.[10][11][12][5][13]
4-21 November 1957  Soviet Union Moscow Soviet Union First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev Celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution as well as the 1957 International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties.[14][15]
21-28 November 1958  China Beijing China Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong [16][4]
28 November-2 December 1958  North Vietnam Hanoi North Vietnam Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh [17][18]
14 January-6 February 1959  Soviet Union Moscow Soviet Union First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev
1 October 1959  China Beijing China Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong Attended the Chinese National Day Parade in honor of the 10th anniversary of the PRC.[4]

1960s

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Date(s) Country Locations Leaders met Details
3-25 March 1961  Soviet Union Moscow Soviet Union First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev [2]
17-31 October 1961 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
11-15 July 1961  China Beijing China Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong Signing of Sino-North Korean Mutual Aid and Cooperation Friendship Treaty
November 1964  North Vietnam Hanoi North Vietnam Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh [17]
10-20 April 1965  Indonesia Bandung Indonesia President of Indonesia Sukarno [3] Kim delivered a landmark speech "On Socialist Construction in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the South Korean Revolution".[19]
3-7 July 1966 Socialist Republic of Romania Romania Bucharest Socialist Republic of Romania General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party Nicolae Ceaușescu Comecon Summit

According to some reports, two secret meetings were rumored to have been held between Kim and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in 1966 and 1968 in the USSR, with the first theorized to have taken place on the Soviet cruiser Varyag.[2]

1970s

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Kim Il Sung during a diplomatic meeting between him and Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing, 1970
Date(s) Country Locations Leaders met Details
October 1970  China Beijing China Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong [20]
18-26 April 1975 [21]
22-26 May 1975 Socialist Republic of Romania Romania Bucharest Socialist Republic of Romania President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu State visit.[22]
26-30 May 1975 Algeria Algeria Algiers Algeria Chairman of Revolutionary Council

Houari Boumédiène

State visit.[23]
30 May-4 June 1975  Mauritania Nouakchott Mauritania President of Mauritania Moktar Ould Daddah [24] He claimed that the visit was "The greatest event in the history of Mauritania".[25]
4-6 June 1975 People's Republic of Bulgaria Bulgaria Sofia People's Republic of Bulgaria General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party Todor Zhivkov State visit.
5-10 June 1975  Yugoslavia Brdo pri Kranju,[26] Bled,[27] Lake Bohinj,[28] Ljubljana[29] Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito[30] [31]

1980s

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Kim with Erich Honecker in East Berlin, 1 June 1984
Date(s) Country Locations Leaders met Details
7-9 May 1980  Yugoslavia Belgrade Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia Lazar Koliševski Death and state funeral of Josip Broz Tito
9-13 May 1980 Socialist Republic of Romania Romania Bucharest Socialist Republic of Romania President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu State visit.[32][33]
15-26 September 1982  China Beijing
Chengdu 		China Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Deng Xiaoping [34][4]
2-12 June 1983 Beijing China General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Hu Yaobang [4]
16-27 May 1984  Soviet Union Moscow
Minsk[35][2][3] 		Soviet Union General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Konstantin Chernenko State visit.[36][37]
27-29 May 1984  Poland Warsaw Poland First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party and Chairman of the Council of State Wojciech Jaruzelski [38][3][39]
29 May-4 June 1984  East Germany East Berlin East Germany General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany Erich Honecker State visit.[40][3]
4-7 June 1984  Czechoslovakia Prague Czechoslovak Socialist Republic First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and President of Czechoslovakia Gustáv Husák State visit.[41][42][3]
7-10 June 1984 Hungarian People's Republic Hungary Budapest Hungarian People's Republic General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party János Kádár State visit[43][3]
10-15 June 1984 People's Republic of Bulgaria Bulgaria Sofia People's Republic of Bulgaria General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party Todor Zhivkov State visit.[44][45][3]
22-27 October 1986  Soviet Union Moscow Soviet Union General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev [2]
20-23 May 1987  China Beijing China General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Zhao Ziyang [4]
25 June-1 July 1988  Mongolia Ulan Bator Mongolia General Secretary of the Mongolian People's Party Jambyn Batmönkh State visit.[46]

1991

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Date(s) Country Locations Leaders met Details
3-15 October 1991  China Beijing China President of the People's Republic of China Yang Shangkun [47][3][4]

See also

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