Kim Hyong-jik
Father of Kim Il-sung · Lived 1894 to 1926 · aged 31
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Something wrong?The father of Kim Il Sung and patriarch of North Korea's ruling dynasty resisted Japanese occupation a generation before his son built a state around his name.
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Kim Hyong-jik was born on 10 July 1894 and became an independence activist during the Japanese occupation of Korea. He died on 5 June 1926, more than two decades before his son Kim Il Sung would found North Korea. His legacy passed through three generations: Kim Il Sung became the country's first leader, his grandson Kim Jong Il succeeded him, and his great-grandson Kim Jong Un rules today. The activist's life ended in colonial Korea, but his bloodline became the basis of the world's only communist hereditary state.
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