Awards and decorations received by Kim Il Sung explained

Kim Il Sung was the founder and first leader of North Korea. According to North Korean sources, the country awarded him "the title of Hero of the DPRK three times, the title of Labour Hero of the DPRK, 26 orders and 3 medals". In addition, foreign countries and organizations conferred upon him 74 orders and 152 medals.[1]

North Korean

Award or decoration Date
Order of the National Flag (1st Class with Neck Chain, six times),
[2] [3] [4] [5]
Hero of Labor
Hero of the Republic (thrice),
,
[6] [7]
Order Commemoration of the Founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (twice)[8]
Order of Freedom and Independence (1st Class, twice)1953[9]
Medal for Agricultural Merits[10]
Medal of Military Service Honour
Commemorative Order "60th Year Anniversary of the Fatherland Liberation War Victory"posthumous
Commemorative Order "70th Year Anniversary Of the Fatherland Liberation War Victory"posthumous[11]

Foreign

Award or decorationCountryDate
(1st Class)[12]
National Gold Medal
Order of Lenin (twice),
[13] [14]
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Order of the Red Banner[15]
Medal "For the Victory over Japan"
Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Order of the Yugoslav Star (Great Star)[16]
Order of Karl Marx (twice),
[17]
National Order of the Thousand Hills (Grand Cross)[18]
Star of the Republic of Indonesia (1st Class)[19] [20]
Order of Georgi Dimitrov (twice),
[21] [22]
Order of Mono (Grand Cross)[23]
Order of José Martí (twice),
[24]
Xirka Ġieħ ir-Repubblika (Honorary Member)[25]
Order of the Grand Star of Honour of Socialist Ethiopia (Grand Cross)
(Batalla de San Jacinto, 1st Class)
Gold Star Order[26]
Order of Victory of Socialism[27]
Order of the Star of the Romanian Socialist Republic (twice, 1st Class and 1st Class with Band),
[28] [29] [30]
75-year Anniversary Parliamentary Medal1981[31]
Order of Klement Gottwald[32]
Order of the White Lion (1st Class with Collar)[33]
Order of Polonia Restituta (Grand Cross, 1st Class)[34] [35]
Order of the Umayyads (Grand Belt)
National Order of Mali (Grand Cross)[36]
[37]
Royal Order of Cambodia (Grand Cross)[38]
Cambodia[39]
National Order of Madagascar (Grand Cross, 1st Class)[40] [41]
Order of Sukhbaatar (twice),
[42] [43]
Order of Eduardo Mondlane (1st Class)
Order of the Gold Star of Nahouri[44]
(Grand Cross)[45]
Order of Central African Merit (Grand Cross with Necklace)
November 17 MedalInternational Union of Students
Order of Independence (Grand Cross)
National Order of Merit (Grand Cross) Guinea[46]
Ongulumbashe Medal Namibia
Order of the Equatorial Star Gabon[47]
Guinea-Bissau[48]
Bulgaria
National Order of Merit (Grand Cross) Mauritania[49]
National Order of the Republic Burundi[50]
Order of Merit of the People's Republic of Poland (Grand Ribbon)[51]
(twice) Libya,
Libya[52]
Order of Excellence of Guyana Guyana[53]
National Order of the Leopard (Grand Cordon)[54]
(Grand Cross) Niger
Order of the Grand Companion of Freedom (1st Class) Zambia
(Grand Cross)[55]
Order of the Nile (Necklace) Egypt[56]
National Order of the People's Republic of Benin (Grand Cross) Benin[57]
National Order of the Lion (Grand Cross) Senegal[58]

See also

References

Works cited

Notes and References

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