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Kim jong suk, kim jong il and kim il sung

Kim Jong Suk, Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung

USS Pueblo North Korea

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Kim Jung Il - Higher Education 1960-4

Kim Jung Il entered the most prestigious university in the DPRK, that named after his father; The Kim Il Sung University, in 1960. His degree was in Marxist Political Economy and he minored in subjects such as military science and philosophy. On July 22 1961 he joined the Worker's Party of Korea (WPK) and started joining his father on his famous "on the spot guidance tours" where visits to farms, production lines, etc were made and where employees were encouraged to increase production and given advice on how to work more efficiently.

kim jong il university student
In the image on the left Kim Jong Il poses in the middle with foreign university classmates.

 

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