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Kim set up shop as chairman of the People's Committee of North Korea, the regional communist group later to be known as the Korean Workers Party.

In 1948, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was founded, with Kim as its premier.

Kim died in Pyongyang on July 8, 1994, allegedly from a heart condition, before the summit could take place.

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North Korea is home to more than 24 million people, who live under a form of communist rule, which strictly controls all areas of daily life.

Many people rely on aid agencies, such as the United Nations, to provide food because there is not enough in the country to eat.

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As head of state, Kim crushed the remaining domestic opposition and eliminated his last rivals for power within the Korean Workers’ Party

He became his country’s absolute ruler and set about transforming North Korea into an austere, militaristic, and highly regimented society devoted to the twin goals of industrialization and the reunification of the Korean peninsula under North Korean rule.

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During World War II, Kim led a Korean contingent as a major in the Soviet army.

He became the first premier of the newly formed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in 1948, and in 1949 he became chairman of the Korean Workers’ (communist) Party.

He became his country’s absolute ruler and set about transforming North Korea into an austere, militaristic, and highly regimented society devoted to the twin goals of industrialization and the reunification of the Korean peninsula under North Korean rule.

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Kim Il-sung was born on April 15, 1912

Fought with the Soviet army during World War II

Kim was the son of parents who fled to Manchuria during his childhood to escape the Japanese rule of Korea.

He was arrested and jailed for his activities with the group in 1929–30.

After Kim’s release from prison, he joined the Korean guerrilla resistance against the Japanese occupation sometime during the 1930s and adopted the name of an earlier legendary Korean guerrilla fighter against the Japanese.