Kim Jong-il
Kim Jong Il, born Yuri Irsenovich Kim on 16 February 1941, was a North Korean politician who was the second President of North Korea. He led North Korea following the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994 until his own death in 2011, when he was succeeded by his son, Kim Jong Un. Afterwards, Kim Jong Il was declared Eternal General Secretary of the WPK.
In the early 1980s, Kim had become the heir apparent for the leadership of North Korea, thus being established the Kim dynasty and he assumed important posts in party and army organizations. Kim was the General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), WPK Presidium, Chairman of the National Defense Commission (NDC) of North Korea and the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army (KPA), the fourth-largest standing army in the world.
Kim assumed leadership during a period of catastrophic economic crisis amidst the dissolution of the Soviet Union, on which it was heavily dependent for trade in food and other supplies, which brought a famine. Kim strengthened the role of the military by his Songun ("military-first") policies, making the army the central organizer of civil society. Kim's rule also saw economic reforms, including the opening of the Kaesong Industrial Park in 2003.
Following Kim's failure to appear at important public events in 2008, foreign observers assumed that Kim had either fallen seriously ill or died. On 19 December 2011, the North Korean government announced that he had died two days earlier, whereupon his third son, Kim Jong Un, was promoted to a senior position in the ruling WPK and succeeded him.
Acting
TV
Moving
as Self (archive footage)
2023
TV
How to Become a Tyrant
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Movie
The Propaganda Game
as Self (archive footage)
2015
TV
Spycraft
as Self
2021
Movie
Death of a President
as Self (archive footage)
2006
Movie
Beyond Utopia
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Movie
King of Clones
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Movie
The Lovers and the Despot
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2016
Movie
The Red Chapel
as Self (archive footage)
2010
Movie
A State of Mind
as Himself (archive footage)
2005
Movie
Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in PyongYang
as Self (archive footage)
2015
Movie
Kim Jong-un: The Unauthorized Biography
as Self - Politician (archive footage)
2015
Movie
Korea: The Never-Ending War
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Movie
I Am Sun Mu
as Self (archive footage)
2015
Movie
North Korea: The Parade
as Self
1989
Movie
One Day on Earth
as Self
2012
Movie
North Korea: Inside The Mind of a Dictator
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Movie
Friends Of Kim
as Himself (archive footage)
2006
TV
Spotlight
as Self (archive footage)
2015
Movie
Korea, A Hundred Years of War
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Movie
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Il is a Great Thinker and Theoretician
as Himself
2000
Movie
Dictator: One Crazy Job
as Self (archive footage)
2013
Movie
Nordkorea – Die Macht der Kim-Dynastie
as Himself
2023
Movie
North Korean Film Madness
as Himself
2011
