# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kim-yong-ju
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:19:45.787Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kim-yong-ju"
name: "Kim Yong-ju"
slug: "kim-yong-ju"
description: "Kim Yong-ju was a North Korean politician and the younger brother of Kim Il Sung, who ruled North Korea from 1948 to 1994. Under his brother's rule, Kim Yong-ju held key posts including Politburo member in the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) during the 1960s and early 1970s, but he fell out of favour in 1974 following a power struggle with his nephew Kim Jong Il. From 1998 until his death in 2021, he held the ceremonial position of Honorary Vice President of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA), North Korea's parliament."
tagline: "North Korean politician and Kim Il-sung's younger brother"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d0/Kim_Yong-ju.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1920-09-21"
deathDate: "2021"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.07
  momentum:             4.937949052906596
  historical:           19.047968
  currentAttention:     27.43305029392554
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "金英柱"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Yong-ju"
    title: "Kim Yong-ju"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Y%C5%8Fng-ju"
    title: "Kim Yŏng-ju"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%B9%CE%BC_%CE%93%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%B3%CE%BA-%CF%84%CE%B6%CE%BF%CF%85"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kim Yong-ju"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kim Yong-ju"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "کیم یونگ-جو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Yong-ju"
    title: "Kim Yong-ju"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Yong-ju"
    title: "Kim Yong-ju"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jongdzsu_(politikus)"
    title: "Kim Jongdzsu (politikus)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Yong-ju"
    title: "Kim Yong-ju"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Yong-ju"
    title: "Kim Yong-ju"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "კიმ იონგ-ჯუ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B9%80%EC%98%81%EC%A3%BC_(1920%EB%85%84)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kim Yong-ju"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Jong_Chu"
    title: "Kim Jong Chu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Yong-ju"
    title: "Kim Yong-ju"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Y%C5%8Fng-ju"
    title: "Kim Yŏng-ju"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Yong-ju"
    title: "Kim Yong-ju"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D0%BC_%D0%81%D0%BD_%D0%A7%D0%B6%D1%83"
    title: "Ким Ён Чжу"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Yong-ju"
    title: "Kim Yong-ju"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1062006"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump