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Awards and decorations received by Kim Il Sung

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Kim Il Sung

Kim Il Sung was the 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

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Award or decoration Date
Order of the National Flag (1st Class with Neck Chain, six times) 6 February 1951,
28 July 1953 		[2][3][4][5][6]
Hero of Labor 7 September 1958 [7]
Hero of the Republic (thrice) 28 July 1953,
15 April 1972,
April 1982 		[7][8][3][9]
Order Commemoration of the Founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (twice) [7]
Order of Freedom and Independence (1st Class, twice) 1953 [2][10]
Medal for Agricultural Merits [11]
Medal of Military Service Honour [11]
Commemorative Order "60th Year Anniversary of the Fatherland Liberation War Victory" posthumous [12]
Commemorative Order "70th Year Anniversary Of the Fatherland Liberation War Victory" posthumous [13]

Foreign

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Award or decoration Country Date
Order of Liberty [sq] (1st Class)  Albania June 1956 [14][15]
National Gold Medal  Laos 3 February 1992 [16]
Order of Lenin (twice)  Soviet Union 14 April 1972,
14 April 1987 		[17][18][19][20]
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"  Soviet Union 8 May 1970 [2][21]
Order of the Red Banner  Soviet Union 29 August 1945 [22][23]
Medal "For the Victory over Japan"  Soviet Union 30 September 1945 [24][25]
Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"  Soviet Union 15 August 1975 [26]
Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"  Soviet Union 9 May 1985 [27]
Order of the Yugoslav Star (Great Star)  Yugoslavia 29 August 1977 [28]
Order of Karl Marx (twice)  East Germany 15 April 1982,
15 April 1987 		[10][29][20]
National Order of the Thousand Hills (Grand Cross)  Rwanda 15 June 1978 [2][30]
Star of the Republic of Indonesia (1st Class)  Indonesia 10 April 1965 [31][21]
Order of Georgi Dimitrov (twice)  Bulgaria October 1973,
11 April 1987 		[7][32][33]
100th Anniversary of the Birth of Georgi Dimitrov [cs]  Bulgaria 28 January 1983 [16]
Order of Mono (Grand Cross)  Togo 11 September 1974 [34]
Order of José Martí (twice)  Cuba 13 April 1982,
10 March 1986 		[7][30][35]
Order of Playa Girón  Cuba 4 April 1987 [36][37]
Xirka Ġieħ ir-Repubblika (Honorary Member)  Malta 1 August 1985 [38]
Order of the Grand Star of Honour of Socialist Ethiopia (Grand Cross)  Ethiopia 10 November 1985 [7][30]
Augusto Cesar Sandino Order [es] (Batalla de San Jacinto, 1st Class)  Nicaragua 25 August 1986 [7][30]
Gold Star Order  Vietnam 9 September 1988 [39]
Order of Victory of Socialism  Romania 15 April 1987 [7][40]
Order of the Star of the Romanian Socialist Republic (twice, 1st Class and 1st Class with Band)  Romania 6 July 1972,
9 April 1982 		[41][42][43][20]
75-year Anniversary Parliamentary Medal  Finland 1981 [44]
Order of Klement Gottwald  Czechoslovakia 29 January 1987 [45]
Order of the White Lion (1st Class with Collar)  Czechoslovakia 7 June 1973 [46][32]
30th Anniversary of Liberation Medal [cs]  Czechoslovakia May 1975 [47]
Order of Polonia Restituta (Grand Cross, 1st Class)  Poland 5 July 1956 [48][49]
Order of the Umayyads (Grand Belt)  Syria 25 September 1974 [20]
National Order of Mali (Grand Cross)  Mali 18 May 1976 [50]
Order of the Star of Palestine [ar]  Palestine 26 July 1993 [51]
Royal Order of Cambodia (Grand Cross)  Cambodia 9 October 1965 [52][21]
Order of National Independence [nl]  Cambodia [53]
National Order of Madagascar (Grand Cross, 1st Class)  Madagascar 6 October 1985 [54][37]
Order of Sukhbaatar (twice)  Mongolia January 1953,
29 June 1988 		[55][36][56]
Order of Eduardo Mondlane (1st Class)  Mozambique 14 July 1984 [57]
Order of the Gold Star of Nahouri  Burkina Faso 5 September 1985 [58]
Order of Operation Bokassa [fr] (Grand Cross)  Central African Republic 1 May 1978 [59]
Order of Central African Merit (Grand Cross with Necklace)  Central African Republic 1 May 1978 [2][59]
November 17 Medal International Union of Students 17 January 1986 [2][37]
Order of Independence (Grand Cross)  Equatorial Guinea 18 April 1992 [60][37]
National Order of Merit (Grand Cross)  Guinea 24 May 2005 [61]
Ongulumbashe Medal  Namibia 11 September 1992 [62][37]
Order of the Equatorial Star  Gabon May 1977 [63]
Order of Amílcar Cabral [es]  Guinea-Bissau 15 April 1982 [64]
30th Anniversary of Victory Over Fascist Germany [cs]  Bulgaria June 1975 [62]
National Order of Merit (Grand Cross)  Mauritania 30 May 1975 [65]
National Order of the Republic  Burundi 22 March 1979 [66]
Order of Merit of the People's Republic of Poland (Grand Ribbon)  Poland 31 March 1987 [67][37]
Order of the Great 1st September Revolution [uk] (twice)  Libya 30 September 1989,
18 April 1992 		[37]
Order of the Grand Conqueror [cs]  Libya [68]
Order of Excellence of Guyana  Guyana [69][70]
National Order of the Leopard (Grand Cordon)  Zaire April 1992 [60][37]
National Order of Niger [nl] (Grand Cross)  Niger 20 September 1986 [37]
Order of the Grand Companion of Freedom (1st Class)  Zambia 26 February 1988 [37]
Congolese Order of Merit [fr] (Grand Cross)  Republic of the Congo 14 March 1983 [71]
Order of the Nile (Necklace)  Egypt 4 April 1983 [72]
National Order of the People's Republic of Benin (Grand Cross)  Benin 10 July 1976 [73]
National Order of the Lion (Grand Cross)  Senegal [70]
Order of the 14th of October [ar]  South Yemen [70]

See also

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References

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