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Kim Jong Il

(1941–2011) Politician

24 quotes in 195 categories

Kim Jong Il was a politician, best known for The Cinema and Directing.

Quick Facts About Kim Jong Il

Born: February 16, 1941
Died: December 17, 2011
Profession: Politician
Notable works: The Cinema and Directing

About Kim Jong Il

Kim Jong Il was a North Korean politician and dictator who was the second supreme leader of North Korea from the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994 until his own death in 2011. Posthumously, Kim Jong Il was declared an Eternal Leader of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Kim Jong Il

Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.

Peacebuilding

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It is my greatest wish to enable our people to live with nothing to envy at the earliest possible date, and it…

Envy

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The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

Backgrounds

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Nothing is impossible for a man with a strong will. The possible is in store only for a man who loves the…

Future

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We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many…

American people

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The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

Art

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Glory to the heroic soldiers of the Korean People's Army!

Army

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Although the Great Leader told us that we have to let the people eat rice with meat soup, wear silk clothes and…

Accomplished

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One can live without candy, but one cannot live without bullets.

Bullets

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A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.

Audience

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National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

Defense

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No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence…

Capitalist

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Our Party's Songun-based revolutionary leadership, Songun-based politics, is a revolutionary mode of leadership and socialist mode of politics that gives top priority…

Affair

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The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.

Colonialism

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In their day, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin represented the aspirations and demands of the exploited working masses, and the cause of…

Aspiration

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Great ideology creates great times.

Great times

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The physical life of an individual person is limited, but the life of the masses united as an independent social-political organism is…

Acquire

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I am the object of criticism around the world. But I think that since I am being discussed, then I am on…

Around the world

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A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting…

Difficulty

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I'm an Internet expert too. It's all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions…

Experts

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No production of high ideological and artistic value can evolve out of a creative group whose members are not united ideologically and…

Art

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Karl Marx made a great contribution to the liberation cause of mankind, and because of his immortal exploits his name is still…

Causes

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Imperialist aid is a noose of plunder and subjugation, aimed at robbing 10 and even 100 things for one thing that is given.

Aids

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The core in the Juche outlook on the revolution is loyalty to the party and the leader. The cause of socialism and…

Causes

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