List of awards and honours received by Kim Jong Il

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This is a list of awards and decorations received by Kim Jong Il. According to North Korean sources, North Korea "conferred ... the title of Hero of the DPRK four times, the Order of Kim Il Sung four times, Kim Il Sung Prize two times, 22 orders and 9 medals" on Kim Jong Il. Additionally, "many countries and international organizations conferred 39 orders, 141 medals and 201 honorary titles on him".[1]

Kim Jong Il

North Korean

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Award or decoration Date
Order of Kim Il Sung (four times) 3 April 1979,
7 April 1982,
7 April 1992,
29 March 2012		 [2][3][4][5]
Kim Il Sung Prize (twice) February 1973,
29 March 2012		 [6][7][5]
International Kim Il-sung Prize 16 February 2007 [6][8]
Hero of the Republic (four times) 15 February 1975,
15 February 1982,
February 1992,
19 December 2011		 [7][9][10][11]
Order of the National Flag (1st Class with Neck Chain, five times individually and four times with Hero of the Republic) 1982 [7][12][13]
Order of the National Flag (2nd Class) [7]
Order of Freedom and Independence (1st Class, twice) [7]
Order of Freedom and Independence (2nd Class) 1960s [7]
Order of Soldier's Honor (1st Class) [14]
Order of Labor (thrice) [7]
Commemorative Order "Founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" [6]
Commemorative Order "50th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" [6]
Commemorative Order "60th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" [6]
Commemorative Order "Foundation of the Foundation of the People's Army" [14]
30th Anniversary of the Publication of the Rural Theses Order [14]
Commemorative Order "60th Anniversary of the People's Army" [7]
Commemorative Order "40th Anniversary of Fatherland Liberation War Victory" [7]
Order of the Red Banner of Three Great Revolutions [7]
Commemorative Order "Capital Construction" [7]
Commemorative Medal "The Foundation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" [6]
Commemorative Medal "60th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" [6]
Commemorative Medal "Fatherland Liberation" [7]
Merited Service Medal (twice) [7]
Commemorative Medal "Mt. Kumgang Power Plant Construction" [7]
Commemorative Medal "Pyongyang-Nampho Highway Construction" [14]
Commemorative Medal "Huicheon Power Plant Construction" [7]
Commemorative Order "60th Year Anniversary Of the Fatherland Liberation War Victory" posthumous [15]
Commemorative Order "70th Year Anniversary of the Fatherland Liberation War Victory" posthumous [16]
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Foreign

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Award or decoration Country Date
National Order of Merit (Grand Cross) Guinea 20 April 2005 [17]
Order of Kiyatikun Laos April 1992 [18]
National Gold Medal Laos [19]
National Order of Niger [nl] (Grand Cross) Niger 20 September 1986 [20]
Order of the Republic (Collar) Egypt 4 April 1983 [21]
Order of the Nile (Collar) Egypt [22]
Order of Independence (Grand Cross) Equatorial Guinea 13 April 1992 [23]
Order of Democracy Colombia 12 January 1995 [24]
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" Soviet Union [19]
Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Soviet Union 9 May 1985 [25][26]
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Russia 22 March 1995 [27][28]
Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg" Russia 2 December 2005 [29]
Jubilee Medal "60 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Russia 10 March 2005 [30]
Jubilee Medal "65 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" Russia 4 May 2010 [31][32]
Medal of Zhukov Russia [33]
Order of Solidarity Cuba 31 January 1992 [20]
National Order of the Leopard (Grand Cordon) Zaire 1992 [34]
Commemoration Medal of the 80th Anniversary of Independence Finland [35]
Royal Order of Cambodia (Grand Cross) Cambodia 31 July 2004 [36][37]
Order of National Independence [nl] (Grand Collar) Cambodia 31 July 2004 [22][37]
Legion of Holy Jerusalem Palestine 27 July 1993 [25][38]
World Friendship Order Libyan Arab Jamahiriya February 2002 [18]
Order of the Grand Conqueror [cs] Libyan Arab Jamahiriya [19]
National Order of the Thousand Hills (Grand Cross) Rwanda May 1983 [39]
Most Brilliant Order of the Sun Namibia 20 March 2008 [40][41]
Order of the Welwitschia (1st Class) Namibia 26 August 2002 [42]
Ongulumbashe Medal Namibia 11 September 1992 [43]
National Order of the Lion (Grand Cross) Senegal June 2011 [44]
Order of Central African Merit (Grand Cross) Central African Republic 9 July 1983 [45][46]
Order of Roraima of Guyana Guyana 4 December 1983 [47]
Order of the Grand Star of Honour of Socialist Ethiopia (1st Class) Derg 16 November 1985 [23]
National Order of Mali (Grand Cross) Mali 17 December 1992 [20]
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