Awards and decorations received by Kim Il-sung

This is a list of awards and decorations received by Kim Il-sung, founder and first leader of North Korea. According to North Korean sources, Kim Il-sung had received 230 foreign orders, medals and titles from 70 countries since the 1940s until, and after, his death in 1994.[1]

Kim Il-sung

North Korean
Award or decoration Date Ref
Order of the National Flag (1st Class, six times) 6 February 1951;
1953		 [2][3][4]
 Hero of Labor 7 September 1958 [5]
Hero of the Republic (thrice) August 1953, April 1972, April 1982 [5][6]
Order Commemoration of the Founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (twice) [5]
Order of Freedom and Independence (1st Class, twice) [2]

Foreign
Award or decoration Country Date Ref
Order of Liberty (1st Class)  Albania 1956 [7]
 Gold Medal of the Nation  Laos 3 February 1992 [8]
Order of Lenin (twice)  Soviet Union April 1972, 14 April 1987 [9][10][11]
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"  Soviet Union 1969 [2]
Order of the Red Banner  Soviet Union 1945 [12]
Medal "For the Victory over Japan"  Soviet Union [13]
Order of the Yugoslav Star (Great Star)  Yugoslavia 29 August 1977 [14]
Order of Karl Marx (twice)  East Germany 1982 [2]
National Order of the Thousand Hills (Grand Cross)  Rwanda 15 June 1978 [2][15]
Star of the Republic of Indonesia (1st Class)  Indonesia April 1965 [16]
Order of Georgi Dimitrov (twice)  Bulgaria [5]
Order of Mono (Grand Cross)  Togo 11 September 1974 [17]
Order of José Martí (twice)  Cuba March 1986 [5][18]
Order of Playa Girón  Cuba April 1987 [19]
Xirka Ġieħ ir-Repubblika  Malta 1 August 1985 [20]
Order of the Grand Star of Honour of Socialist Ethiopia  Ethiopia 10 November 1985 [5][15]
Augusto Cesar Sandino Order  Nicaragua 25 August 1986 [5][15]
 Gold Star Order  Vietnam 9 September 1988 [21]
Order of Victory of Socialism  Romania [5]
Order of the Star of the Romanian Socialist Republic (1st Class with Band)  Romania 9 April 1982 [22][11]
75-year Anniversary Parliamentary Medal  Finland 1981 [23]
Order of Klement Gottwald  Czechoslovakia 29 January 1987 [24]
Order of the White Lion (Collar)  Czechoslovakia 1973 [25]
Order of the Rebirth of Poland (Grand Cross)  Poland 1956 [26]
Order of Civil Merit  Syria
Order of the Umayyads (Grand Belt)  Syria 25 September 1974 [11]
National Order of Mali (Grand Cross)  Mali 18 May 1976 [27][15]
Order of the Star of Palestine  Palestine 1993 [28]
Royal Order of Cambodia (Grand Cross)  Cambodia [29]
National Order of Madagascar (Grand Cross, 1st Class)  Madagascar October 1985 [30][19]
Order of Sukhbaatar  Mongolia January 1953 [31][19]
Order of Eduardo Mondlane (1st Class)  Mozambique 24 July 1984 [32]
Order of the Gold Star of Nahouri  Burkina Faso 1986 [2]
National Necklace of Order of Merit  Central African Republic [2]
November 17 Medal International Union of Students 1986 [2]
Order of Independence (Grand Cross)  Equatorial Guinea [33]
National Order of Merit (Grand Cross)  Guinea [34]
Ongulumbashe Medal  Namibia September 1992 [18]
Order of the Equatorial Star  Gabon May 1977 [35]
Order of Amílcar Cabral  Guinea-Bissau 15 April 1982 [36]
30th Anniversary Of Victory Over Fascist Germany  Bulgaria June 1975 [18]
National Order of Merit  Mauritania [37]
National Order of the Republic  Burundi 22 March 1979 [38]
Order of Merit of the Polish People's Republic (Grand Belt)  Poland 1987 [39]
Order of the Grand Conqueror  Libya [40]

See also

References
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