List of international trips made by Kim Il-sung

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 and President of North Korea. His first international state visit was to the Soviet Union in 1949.

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

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

Summary of official trips

1949
Kim inspecting a guard of honour at the Moscow Leningradsky railway station.
Date(s) Country Locations Leaders met Details
3-25 March 1949  Soviet Union Moscow General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin [2][3]

1950s
Kim's motorcade in front of Tiananmen Gate.
Date(s) Country Locations Leaders met Details
10-23 September 1953  Soviet Union Moscow Premier of the Soviet Union Georgy Malenkov
10-27 November 1953  China Beijing Chairman of the Communist Party of China Mao Zedong [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 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 President of East Germany Wilhelm Pieck state visit[5]
13-17 June 1956 Romania Bucharest General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej state visit[5]
17-20 June 1956 Hungary Budapest Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic Mátyás Rákosi state visit[5]
21-25 June 1956  Czechoslovakia Prague
Plzeň		 First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and President of Czechoslovakia Antonín Zápotocký state visit[5]
25-26 June 1956 Bulgaria Sofia General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party Todor Zhivkov state visit[5]
29 June-1 July 1956 Albania Tirana First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania Enver Hoxha [6][7][8][5]
2-6 July 1956  Poland Warsaw First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party Edward Ochab [9][5]
6-16 July 1956  Soviet Union Moscow First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev [5]
16-18 July 1956  Mongolia Ulan Bator General Secretary of the Mongolian People's Party Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal state visit[10][11][12][5]
4-21 November 1957  Soviet Union Moscow 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.[13][14]
21-28 November 1958  China Beijing Chairman of the Communist Party of China Mao Zedong [15][4]
28 November-2 December 1958  North Vietnam Hanoi Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh [16][17]
14 January-6 February 1959  Soviet Union Moscow First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev
1 October 1959  China Beijing Chairman of the Communist Party of China Mao Zedong Attended the Chinese National Day Parade in honor of the 10th anniversary of the PRC.[4]

1960s
Date(s) Country Locations Leaders met Details
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 Communist Party of China 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 [16]
10-20 April 1965  Indonesia Bandung President of Indonesia Sukarno [3]
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]

1970s
Kim Il Sung during a diplomatic meeting between him and Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing, 1970.
Date(s) Country Locations Leaders met Details
October 1970  China Beijing Chairman of the Communist Party of China Mao Zedong [18]
18-26 April 1975 [19]
22-26 May 1975 Romania Bucharest President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu state visit[20]
26-30 May 1975 Algeria Algiers Chairman of the Revolutionary Council Houari Boumédiène state visit[21]
30 May-4 June 1975  Mauritania Nouakchott President of Mauritania Moktar Ould Daddah [22] He claimed that the visit was "The greatest event in the history of Mauritania".[23]
4-6 June 1975 Bulgaria Sofia General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party Todor Zhivkov state visit
6-10 June 1975  Yugoslavia Belgrade President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito [24]

1980s
Jambyn Batmönkh and Kim on a 1988 North Korean stamp depicting his Ulan Bator visit.
Kim with Erich Honecker in East Berlin.
Date(s) Country Locations Leaders met Details
7-9 May 1980  Yugoslavia Belgrade President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia Lazar Koliševski Death and state funeral of Josip Broz Tito
9-13 May 1980 Romania Bucharest President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu state visit[25][26]
15-26 September 1982  China Beijing
Chengdu		 Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Deng Xiaoping [27][4]
2-12 June 1983 Beijing General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Hu Yaobang [4]
16-27 May 1984  Soviet Union Moscow
Minsk[28][2][3]		 General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Konstantin Chernenko state visit[29][30]
27-29 May 1984  Poland Warsaw First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party and Chairman of the Council of State Wojciech Jaruzelski [31][3][32]
29 May-4 June 1984  East Germany East Berlin General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany Erich Honecker state visit[33][3]
4-7 June 1984  Czechoslovakia Prague First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and President of Czechoslovakia Gustav Husak state visit[34][35][3]
7-10 June 1984 Hungary Budapest General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party János Kádár state visit[36][3]
10-15 June 1984 Bulgaria Sofia General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party Todor Zhivkov state visit[37][38][3]
22-27 October 1986  Soviet Union Moscow General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev [2]
20-23 May 1987  China Beijing General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Zhao Ziyang [4]
25 June-1 July 1988  Mongolia Ulan Bator General Secretary of the Mongolian People's Party Jambyn Batmönkh state visit[39]

1991
Date(s) Country Locations Leaders met Details
3-15 October 1991  China Beijing President of the People's Republic of China Yang Shangkun [40][3][4]

See also

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