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

The number of visits per country where he traveled are:

One visit to Albania, Indonesia, Mauritania and Algeria Two visits to Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Mongolia, North Vietnam and Yugoslavia Three visits to Bulgaria and Romania Ten visits to the Soviet Union Eleven visits to China

Summary of official trips

1949

Date(s)CountryLocationsLeaders metDetails3-25 March 1949Moscow Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin

1950s

Date(s)CountryLocationsLeaders metDetails10-23 September 1953Moscow Premier of the Soviet Union Georgy MalenkovState visit.10-27 November 1953Beijing Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao ZedongState visit.28 September-5 October 1954BeijingAttended the Chinese National Day Parade in honor of the 5th anniversary of the PRC.1-6 June 1956Moscow First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev7-12 June 1956 East Berlin President of East Germany Wilhelm PieckState visit.13-17 June 1956 RomaniaBucharest General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party Gheorghe Gheorghiu-DejState visit. 17-20 June 1956 HungaryBudapest Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic Mátyás RákosiState visit.21-25 June 1956 PraguePlzeň First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and President of Czechoslovakia Antonín ZápotockýState visit.25-26 June 1956 BulgariaSofia General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party Todor Zhivkovstate visit29 June-1 July 1956 AlbaniaTirana First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania Enver Hoxha2-6 July 1956Warsaw First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party Edward Ochabhttp://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.desklight-51bd0371-3324-4964-9d1e-f86f8223af57/c/06_szyc.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwj6r6ud5vflAhUYs54KHf0wBM0QFjAXegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw2gtZeCLgamN_jsFmgygBng 6-16 July 1956Moscow First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev16-18 July 1956Ulan Bator General Secretary of the Mongolian People's Party Yumjaagiin TsedenbalState visit.4-21 November 1957Moscow First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita KhrushchevCelebrations of the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution as well as the 1957 International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties.21-28 November 1958Beijing Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong28 November-2 December 1958Hanoi Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh14 January-6 February 1959Moscow First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev1 October 1959Beijing Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao ZedongAttended the Chinese National Day Parade in honor of the 10th anniversary of the PRC.

1960s Date(s)CountryLocationsLeaders metDetails3-25 March 1961Moscow First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev17-31 October 196122nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union11-15 July 1961Beijing Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao ZedongSigning of Sino-North Korean Mutual Aid and Cooperation Friendship TreatyNovember 1964Hanoi Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh10-20 April 1965Bandung President of Indonesia Sukarno Kim delivered a landmark speech "On Socialist Construction in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the South Korean Revolution".3-7 July 1966 RomaniaBucharest General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party Nicolae CeaușescuComecon 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.

1970s

Date(s)CountryLocationsLeaders metDetailsOctober 1970Beijing Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong18-26 April 197522-26 May 1975 RomaniaBucharest President of Romania Nicolae CeaușescuState visit.26-30 May 1975 AlgeriaAlgiers Chairman of Revolutionary Council Houari BoumédièneState visit.30 May-4 June 1975Nouakchott President of Mauritania Moktar Ould Daddah He claimed that the visit was "The greatest event in the history of Mauritania".4-6 June 1975 BulgariaSofia General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party Todor ZhivkovState visit.5-10 June 1975Brdo pri Kranju, Bled, Lake Bohinj, Ljubljana President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito

1980s

Date(s)CountryLocationsLeaders metDetails7-9 May 1980Belgrade President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia Lazar KoliševskiDeath and state funeral of Josip Broz Tito9-13 May 1980 RomaniaBucharest President of Romania Nicolae CeaușescuState visit.15-26 September 1982BeijingChengdu Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Deng Xiaoping2-12 June 1983Beijing General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Hu Yaobang17-27 May 1984MoscowMinsk General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Konstantin ChernenkoState visit.27-29 May 1984Warsaw First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party and Chairman of the Council of State Wojciech JaruzelskiState visithttp://www.marszalek.com.pl/yearbook/docs/39/ppsy2010012.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwin0fii5_zlAhUKKBoKHY1PDiI4FBAWMAZ6BAgEEAE&usg=AOvVaw0QxoNXuCSu5eSZk1mXxPe5 29 May-4 June 1984 East Berlin General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany Erich HoneckerState visit.4-7 June 1984 Prague First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and President of Czechoslovakia Gustáv HusákState visit.7-9 June 1984 HungaryBudapest General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party János KádárState visit9-12 June 1984Belgrade President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia Veselin DjuranovicState visit.Borba, 11.06.198412-18 June 1984 BulgariaSofia General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party Todor ZhivkovState visit.18-21 June 1984 RomaniaBucharest President of Romania Nicolae CeaușescuState visit.Scinteia, 19.06.198422-27 October 1986Moscow General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev20-23 May 1987Beijing General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Zhao Ziyang25 June-1 July 1988Ulan Bator General Secretary of the Mongolian People's Party Jambyn BatmönkhState visit.

1990s Date(s)CountryLocationsLeaders metDetails3-15 October 1991Beijing President of China Yang Shangkun

List of international trips made by Kim Il Sung

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