• Source: International Kim Il Sung Prize

      • The International Kim Il Sung Prize (Korean: 국제김일성상) is an award conferred for contributions in the study and proliferation of the Juche idea. It is named in honor of Kim Il Sung, the first supreme leader of the North Korea, credited with creation of the Juche idea.
      The prize was instituted on April 13, 1993, when North Korea organized the International Kim Il Sung Prize Council in New Delhi, India, to celebrate the 81st birthday of Kim Il-sung (April 15, 1993) internationally.
      The International Kim Il Sung Prize consists of a gold medal, certificate, a sum of money and a souvenir token.


      Prize Council


      The International Kim Il Sung Prize Council selects and decides the candidate and organizes the conferment of the prize. The Council was officially registered in India and its headquarters is in New Delhi. The Council consists of one secretary-general and seven directors.
      The composition of the council is not made public, but the following persons are known to have been members:

      Alva Chavez, director (2002), member (2007)
      Shuhachi Inoue, director, 2002
      Vishwanath, secretary general, 2012
      Since 2007, the prize has been awarded by the International Kim Il Sung Foundation (reorganized as the Kim Il-sung-Kim Jong-il Foundation in 2012).


      Recipients


      Shuhachi Inoue, 1993, first recipient
      One person was awarded in 1994, another one in 1995, and two people in 1996
      Vishwanath, April 13, 2002
      Kim Jong Il, February 16, 2007
      Norodom Sihanouk, 29 March 2012
      Ramon Jimenez Lopez, director-general of the International Institute of the Juche Idea, April 6, 2018
      In 2014, Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni was nominated for the award, but repeatedly declined to receive it.


      See also



      Kim Il-sung Prize
      Orders and medals of North Korea
      Order of Kim Il Sung
      International Kim Jong-il Prize


      References




      = Works cited

      =
      Hoare, James E. (13 July 2012). Historical Dictionary of Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7987-4.


      External links


      Kim Il Sung-Kim Jong Il Foundation Archived 2016-05-07 at the Wayback Machine at Naenara
      styleshout.com, Erwin Aligam -. "AUGUST NAME OF KIM IL SUNG » ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF SONGUN POLITICS UK - Long Live Songun Live the DPRK". uk-songun.com. Archived from the original on 2021-10-29. Retrieved 2016-03-02.

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