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The 38 pages that link to Kim Il Sung, each with the reason it gives.

• Korean WarRelated: He led North Korea during the invasion and sought Soviet and Chinese support for unification by force.

• Division of KoreaRelated: He consolidated the northern state and made reunification under his leadership a political aim.

• Korean PeninsulaRelated: His government shaped the northern state formed on the divided peninsula.

• North KoreaRelated: He founded the state and established the ruling family’s political legacy.

• Korean reunificationRelated: His government established North Korea's early policy and proposals on reunification.

• JucheRelated: His speeches and rule established Juche as the state’s defining ideology.

• Korean Armistice AgreementRelated: He signed the agreement for the Korean People’s Army.

• Kim Jong IlRelated: Kim Il Sung established the state and designated his son as successor.

• North Korean famineRelated: His death coincided with the famine’s onset and a political succession during crisis.

• KoreaRelated: He led the northern state through its founding and the Korean War.

• Korean historiographyRelated: State-sponsored interpretations under his rule recast historical scholarship around revolutionary legitimacy.

• Korean liberationRelated: He rose to power in the Soviet-occupied north after liberation.

• Korean People's ArmyRelated: He established the KPA's early command and used it in the Korean War.

• North Korean economyRelated: His government established the state-led economic system and its self-reliance doctrine.

• Workers' Party of KoreaRelated: He consolidated the party around his leadership and established its governing model.

• SongunRelated: Songun was presented as continuous with his revolutionary and military legacy.

• China–North Korea relationsRelated: His wartime partnership with Mao anchored the personal and political foundations of the alliance.

• Democratic People's Republic of KoreaRelated: He founded the state and established the ruling system later inherited by his family.

• Choe Ryong-haeRelated: Choe’s family connections to Kim Il-sung’s partisan circle helped shape his political standing.

• North Korean propagandaRelated: State narratives cast his leadership and revolutionary biography as foundations of the country.

• August Faction IncidentRelated: The challenge targeted his leadership, and its defeat strengthened his position.

• Mount PaektuRelated: North Korean narratives associate his anti-Japanese guerrilla struggle with Paektu.

• RasonRelated: His government established the Rajin-Sonbong zone as part of its late-period economic opening.

• Shin Sang-okRelated: His regime's cultural institutions were the setting for films Shin made after his abduction.

• Chagang ProvinceRelated: State narratives associate the province with wartime leadership and the construction of military industries.

• Choe Yong-gonRelated: Choe served in Kim Il Sung’s government and held senior military and state offices under his leadership.

• History of North KoreaRelated: His leadership shaped the new state’s institutions and its enduring ruling dynasty.

• Cho Ki-chonRelated: Cho’s poems helped present Kim as a heroic leader in the state’s founding narrative.

• Han SoryaRelated: His political authority shaped the conditions under which Han wrote and held literary office.

• History of KoreaRelated: His leadership established the northern state’s political system.

• Juche calendarRelated: His birth year became the Juche calendar’s epoch.

• Kapsan faction incidentRelated: He directed the campaign to remove the faction and consolidate his leadership.