# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kim-jong-suk
# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:57:38.332Z

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name: "Kim Jong-suk"
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description: "She fought Japanese occupation in the mountains, married the man who would found North Korea, and died at thirty-one — leaving two sons who would rule for the next seventy years."
tagline: "First wife of North Korean President Kim Il Sung (1917–1949)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1917-12-24"
deathDate: "1949-09-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Kim Jong-suk was born on 24 December 1917 and became an anti-Japanese guerrilla fighter and Communist activist during Korea's colonial period. She married Kim Il Sung, who would become North Korea's founding leader, and bore him a son, Kim Jong Il, in what would become a dynastic succession. She died on 22 September 1949, just after the state's creation, at age thirty-one. Her grandson Kim Jong Un now leads the country, making her the matriarch of three generations of North Korean rule.