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Kim Jong-suk
Chosŏn'gŭl	김정숙
Hancha	金正淑, born 金貞淑
McCune–Reischauer	Kim Chŏng-suk
Revised Romanization	Gim Jeong-suk

This is a Korean name; the family name is Kim.

Kim Jong-suk (December 24, 1917 – September 22, 1949) was Kim Il-sung's first wife and Kim Jong-il's mother.

Kim Jong-suk was born December 24, 1917 to Kim Chun San and Oh Ssi, who were poor farmers in Osan-dong, Hoeryong County, in the North Hamgyong Province of Japanese Korea. In 1922 her family abandoned Korea to live in China. Kim Jong-suk joined the Young Communist League of Korea, led by Kim Il-sung, on July 10, 1932. Later, on April 25, 1936, she was assigned to the KPRA main unit directly under the command of Kim Il-sung. Kim Jong-suk was formally admitted into the Communist Party on January 25, 1937. Kim Jong-suk gave birth to Kim Jong-il on February 16, 1941 in the Soviet village of Vyatskoye, near Khabarovsk.

On September 22, 1949, Kim Jong-suk died at the age of 31 while giving birth to a stillborn baby girl. Known in Korea as "The Heroine of the Anti-Japanese Revolution", the North Korean government conferred the title of Hero of the DPRK on her on September 21, 1972; her image is used as part of the propaganda apparatus of the Juche Workers Party of North Korea, in which she is portrayed as a revolutionary woman. She is credited as the founder of the Workers' Party of Korea's auxiliary organizations, the Korean Childrens' Union and the Korean Democratic Women's Union, among others.

Kim Hyŏng-jik

Kang Pan-sŏk

Kim Sŏng-ae

Kim Il-sung

Kim Jong-suk

Kim Jong-il

[edit] References

Suh, Dae-Sook, Kim Il Sung: The North Korean Leader. New York: Columbia University Press (1988)
Japser Becker, "Rogue Regime: Kim John Il and the Looming Threat of North Korea",

[edit] External links

"Kim Jong Suk, the Anti-Japanese Heroine" (PDF)