Kim Jong Il, born Yuri Irsenovich Kim on 16 February 1941, was a North Korean politician who was the second President of North Korea. He led North Korea following the death of his father Kim Il Sung in 1994 until his own death in 2011, when he was succeeded by his son, Kim Jong Un. Afterwards, Kim Jong Il was declared Eternal General Secretary of the WPK. In the early 1980s, Kim had become the heir apparent for the leadership of North Korea, thus being established the Kim dynasty and he assumed important posts in party and army organizations. Kim was the General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), WPK Presidium, Chairman of the National Defense Commission (NDC) of North Korea and the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army (KPA), the fourth-largest standing army in the world. Kim assumed leadership during a period of catastrophic economic crisis amidst the dissolution of the Soviet Union, on which it was heavily dependent for trade in food and other supplies, which brought a famine. Kim strengthened the role of the military by his Songun ("military-first") policies, making the army the central organizer of civil society. Kim's rule also saw economic reforms, including the opening of the Kaesong Industrial Park in 2003. Following Kim's failure to appear at important public events in 2008, foreign observers assumed that Kim had either fallen seriously ill or died. On 19 December 2011, the North Korean government announced that he had died two days earlier, whereupon his third son, Kim Jong Un, was promoted to a senior position in the ruling WPK and succeeded him. 김정일(1941년생, Khabarovsk, USSR) 는 배우로, 대표작으로 비욘드 유토피아, Defilada, Dictateur, un boulot de dingue가 있으며, 그 외에도 무빙, 스페셜 탐사 스포트라이트, 스파이크래프트, NHK WORLD PRIME, 폭군이 되는 법, Le Dernier Prince rouge, 나는 선무다, Death of a President, 끝나지 않은 전쟁, 킹 오브 클론: 황우석 박사의 몰락, North Korea: Inside The Mind of a Dictator, Det røde kapel 등 다양한 작품에 출연했다. (오뜨랑에서 실시간으로 번역된 한글 프로필도 확인할 수 있어요) 2026년 다큐 지금: 예측 게임에 출연했다. 2024년 سینما در سرزمین رفیق کیم에 출연했다. 2023년 비욘드 유토피아에 출연했다.