List of international trips made by Kim Il Sung

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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.

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 Il Sung, Anastas Mikoyan, Andrei Gromyko, Pak Huen Yung and Hong Myung Hui passing before the guard of honor at the Yaroslav Station in Moscow, March 1949
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3-25 March 1949 Soviet Union Moscow Soviet Union Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin [2][3]
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1950s

Kim's motorcade in front of the Tiananmen, 22 November 1958
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10-23 September 1953 Soviet Union Moscow Soviet Union Premier of the Soviet Union Georgy Malenkov State visit.
10-27 November 1953 China Beijing China Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong State visit.[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 Soviet Union First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev
7-12 June 1956 East Germany East Berlin East Germany President of East Germany Wilhelm Pieck State visit.[5]
13-17 June 1956 Socialist Republic of Romania Romania Bucharest Socialist Republic of Romania General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej State visit.[5]
17-20 June 1956 Hungarian People's Republic Hungary Budapest Hungarian People's Republic Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic Mátyás Rákosi State visit.[5]
21-25 June 1956 Czechoslovakia Prague
Plzeň		 Czechoslovak Socialist Republic First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and President of Czechoslovakia Antonín Zápotocký State visit.[5]
25-26 June 1956 People's Republic of Bulgaria Bulgaria Sofia People's Republic of Bulgaria General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party Todor Zhivkov state visit[5]
29 June-1 July 1956 People's Socialist Republic of Albania Albania Tirana People's Socialist Republic of Albania First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania Enver Hoxha [6][7][8][5]
2-6 July 1956 Poland Warsaw Poland First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party Edward Ochab [9][5]
6-16 July 1956 Soviet Union Moscow Soviet Union First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev [5]
16-18 July 1956 Mongolian People's Republic Ulan Bator Mongolian People's Republic General Secretary of the Mongolian People's Party Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal State visit.[10][11][12][5][13]
4-21 November 1957 Soviet Union Moscow Soviet Union 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.[14][15]
21-28 November 1958 China Beijing China Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong [16][4]
28 November-2 December 1958 North Vietnam Hanoi North Vietnam Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh [17][18]
14 January-6 February 1959 Soviet Union Moscow Soviet Union First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev
1 October 1959 China Beijing China Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong Attended the Chinese National Day Parade in honor of the 10th anniversary of the PRC.[4]
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1960s

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3-25 March 1961 Soviet Union Moscow Soviet Union 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 China Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong Signing of Sino-North Korean Mutual Aid and Cooperation Friendship Treaty
November 1964 North Vietnam Hanoi North Vietnam Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh [17]
10-20 April 1965 Indonesia Bandung Indonesia 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 Socialist Republic of Romania Romania Bucharest Socialist Republic of Romania General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party Nicolae Ceaușescu Comecon Summit
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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 Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing, 1970
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October 1970 China Beijing China Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong [20]
18-26 April 1975 [21]
22-26 May 1975 Socialist Republic of Romania Romania Bucharest Socialist Republic of Romania President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu State visit.[22]
26-30 May 1975 Algeria Algeria Algiers Algeria Chairman of Revolutionary Council

Houari Boumédiène

 State visit.[23]
30 May-4 June 1975 Mauritania Nouakchott Mauritania 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 People's Republic of Bulgaria Bulgaria Sofia People's Republic of Bulgaria 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] Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito[30] [31]
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1980s

Kim with Erich Honecker in East Berlin, 1 June 1984
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7-9 May 1980 Yugoslavia Belgrade Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia Lazar Koliševski Death and state funeral of Josip Broz Tito
9-13 May 1980 Socialist Republic of Romania Romania Bucharest Socialist Republic of Romania President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu State visit.[32][33]
15-26 September 1982 China Beijing
Chengdu		 China Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Deng Xiaoping [34][4]
2-12 June 1983 Beijing China General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Hu Yaobang [4]
17-27 May 1984 Soviet Union Moscow
Minsk[35][2][3]		 Soviet Union General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Konstantin Chernenko State visit.[36][37]
27-29 May 1984 Poland Warsaw Poland First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party and Chairman of the Council of State Wojciech Jaruzelski State visit[38][3][39]
29 May-4 June 1984 East Germany East Berlin East Germany General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany Erich Honecker State visit.[40][3]
4-7 June 1984 Czechoslovakia Prague Czechoslovak Socialist Republic First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and President of Czechoslovakia Gustáv Husák State visit.[41][42][3]
7-9 June 1984 Hungarian People's Republic Hungary Budapest Hungarian People's Republic General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party János Kádár State visit[43][3]
9-12 June 1984 Yugoslavia Belgrade Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia Veselin Djuranovic State visit.[44]
12-18 June 1984 People's Republic of Bulgaria Bulgaria Sofia People's Republic of Bulgaria General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party Todor Zhivkov State visit.[45][46][3]
18-21 June 1984 Socialist Republic of Romania Romania Bucharest Socialist Republic of Romania President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu State visit.[47]
22-27 October 1986 Soviet Union Moscow Soviet Union General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev [2]
20-23 May 1987 China Beijing China General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Zhao Ziyang [4]
25 June-1 July 1988 Mongolian People's Republic Ulan Bator Mongolian People's Republic General Secretary of the Mongolian People's Party Jambyn Batmönkh State visit.[48]
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1991

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3-15 October 1991 China Beijing China President of the People's Republic of China Yang Shangkun [49][3][4]
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