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:[1]
| Date(s) | Country | Locations | Leaders met | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10-23 September 1953 | Moscow | Premier of the Soviet Union Georgy Malenkov | |||
| 10-27 November 1953 |  China | Beijing | Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong | [3] | |
| 28 September-5 October 1954 | Beijing | Attended the Chinese National Day Parade in honor of the 5th anniversary of the PRC. | |||
| 1-6 June 1956 | Moscow | First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev | The August Faction Incident took place. | ||
| 7-12 June 1956 | East Berlin | President of East Germany Wilhelm Pieck | state visit[4] | ||
| 13-17 June 1956 | Romania | Bucharest | General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej | ||
| 17-20 June 1956 | Hungary | Budapest | Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic Mátyás Rákosi | state visit | |
| 21-25 June 1956 | Prague Plzeň | First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and President of Czechoslovakia Antonín Zápotocký | state visit | ||
| 25-26 June 1956 | Bulgaria | Sofia | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party Todor Zhivkov | state visit | |
| 29 June-1 July 1956 | Albania | Tirana | First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania Enver Hoxha | [5] [6] [7] | |
| 2-6 July 1956 |  Poland | Warsaw | First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party Edward Ochab | [8] | |
| 6-16 July 1956 | Moscow | First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev | |||
| 16-18 July 1956 | Ulan Bator | General Secretary of the Mongolian People's Party Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal | state visit[9] [10] [11] [12] | ||
| 4-21 November 1957 | Moscow | 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.[13] [14] | ||
| 21-28 November 1958 | China | Beijing | Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong | [15] | |
| 28 November-2 December 1958 | Hanoi | Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh | [16] [17] | ||
| 14 January-6 February 1959 | Moscow | First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev | |||
| 1 October 1959 | China | Beijing | Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong | Attended the Chinese National Day Parade in honor of the 10th anniversary of the PRC. |
| Date(s) | Country | Locations | Leaders met | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3-25 March 1961 | Moscow | First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev | |||
| 17-31 October 1961 | 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | ||||
| 11-15 July 1961 | China | Beijing | Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong | Signing of Sino-North Korean Mutual Aid and Cooperation Friendship Treaty | |
| November 1964 | Hanoi | Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh | |||
| 10-20 April 1965 |  Indonesia | Bandung | President of Indonesia Sukarno | [18] 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 | Romania | Bucharest | General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party Nicolae Ceaușescu | Comecon 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.
| Date(s) | Country | Locations | Leaders met | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 1970 | China | Beijing | Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong | [20] | |
| 18-26 April 1975 | [21] | ||||
| 22-26 May 1975 | Romania | Bucharest | President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu | state visit[22] | |
| 26-30 May 1975 |  Algeria | Algiers | Chairman of Revolutionary CouncilHouari Boumédiène | state visit[23] | |
| 30 May-4 June 1975 |  Mauritania | Nouakchott | 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 | Bulgaria | Sofia | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party Todor Zhivkov | state visit | |
| 5-10 June 1975 | Brdo pri Kranju,[26] Bled,[27] Lake Bohinj,[28] Ljubljana[29] | President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito[30] | [31] |
. James Hoare . 2012 . Historical Dictionary of Democratic People's Republic of Korea . . 137 . 978-081-086-151-0 .
Mongolia