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]
Date(s) | Country | Locations | Leaders met | Details |
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3-25 March 1949 | Soviet Union | Moscow | Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin | [2] [3] |
Date(s) | Country | Locations | Leaders met | Details |
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3-25 March 1961 | Soviet Union | Moscow | 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 | Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong | Signing of Sino-North Korean Mutual Aid and Cooperation Friendship Treaty |
November 1964 | North Vietnam | Hanoi | Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh | [17] |
10-20 April 1965 | Indonesia | Bandung | 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 | Romania | Bucharest | 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]
Date(s) | Country | Locations | Leaders met | Details |
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October 1970 | China | Beijing | Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong | [20] |
18-26 April 1975 | [21] | |||
22-26 May 1975 | Romania | Bucharest | President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu | State visit. [22] |
26-30 May 1975 | Algeria | Algiers | Chairman of Revolutionary Council | State visit. [23] |
30 May-4 June 1975 | Mauritania | Nouakchott | 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 | Bulgaria | Sofia | 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] | President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito [30] | [31] |
Date(s) | Country | Locations | Leaders met | Details |
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3-15 October 1991 | China | Beijing | President of the People's Republic of China Yang Shangkun | [47] [3] [4] |
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