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Eternal leaders of North Korea

Posthumous title of North Korea

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caption	Bronze statues of former leaders Kim Il Sung (left) and Kim Jong Il (right) at the Mansu Hill Grand Monument
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hanja	主體朝鮮의 永遠한 首領
lk	Eternal leaders of Juche Korea

The eternal leaders of North Korea (officially the eternal leaders of Juche Korea) are titles accorded to deceased leaders of North Korea. The phrase was used in a line of the preamble to the Constitution, as amended on 30 June 2016, and in subsequent revisions.

It reads (in the original version):

History of the title

Presidency of North Korea before 1994

Main article: President of North Korea

The post of "President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" was established in the Constitution of North Korea in 1972. Until then, Kim Il Sung held the posts of premier and general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.

In 1972, the presidency was established, and Kim Il Sung was elected to the position by the Supreme People's Assembly, the North Korean legislature, on 28 December 1972. Kim served as president until 1994 when he died, and the position was left vacant and his son and successor Kim Jong Il was not given the title.

"Eternal President"

The preamble of the Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as amended on 5 September 1998 reads:

The president was the de jure head of state of North Korea, but whose powers were exercised by the "sacred leader" of the nation's state ideology called Juche. According to Ashley J. Tellis and Michael Wills, this amendment to the preamble was an indication of the unique North Korean characteristic of being a theocratic state based on the personality cult surrounding Kim Il Sung. In addition, North Korea adopted a Juche calendar dating from 1912, the year of Kim Il Sung's birth.

The 2012 constitution once again referred to Kim Il Sung as the "Eternal President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea".

"Eternal General Secretary" / "Eternal Chairman"

After the death of Kim Jong Il, the constitution was amended in 2012, declaring him Eternal General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and Eternal Chairman of the National Defence Commission.

In 2016, the title "eternal leaders of Juche Korea" was introduced by amending the preamble of the constitution, and it was given to Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.

Head of state role in North Korea after the deaths of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il

The functions and powers previously belonging to the president were divided between numerous officials: the premier of North Korea; the chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly, chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly; and the head of the military, the chairman of the National Defence Commission (replaced by State Affairs Commission of North Korea in 2016) and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army. These positions are currently held by Pak Thae-song, Choe Ryong-hae, and Kim Jong Un respectively.

References

Bibliography

References

[[s:Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (2012). Constitution of North Korea (2012)]] on Wikisource
[[s:Constitution of North Korea (1972, rev. 1998). Constitution of North Korea (1972)]] on Wikisource
(30 September 2007). "Domestic Political Change and Grand Strategy". NBR.
[[s:Socialist Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (2016). Constitution of North Korea (2016)]] on Wikisource

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