Eternal President of the Republic

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political office posthumous title

Eternal President of the Republic is the posthumous title granted to North Korea’s founding leader Kim Il Sung, enshrining him as the country’s perpetual head of state and supreme ideological figure.

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	political office → posthumous title →
appliesToPerson	Kim Il Sung →
associatedIdeology	Kimilsungism–Kimjongilism →
associatedWithOffice	President of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea →
commemoratedOn	Day of the Sun → national holidays in North Korea →
constitutionalStatus	permanent head of state →
country	North Korea →
dateEstablished	1998-09-05 →
establishedBy	Supreme People’s Assembly of North Korea →
fullName	Eternal President of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea →
governingPartyContext	Workers’ Party of Korea →
governmentalContext	Democratic People’s Republic of Korea →
grantedTo	Kim Il Sung →
headOfStateFunctionTransferredTo	Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly →
honorificType	eternal leadership title →
ideologicalAssociation	Juche → Kimilsungism →
ideologicalRole	supreme ideological figure of North Korea →
languageOfTitle	Korean →
legalBasis	1998 Constitution of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea →
linkedToPersonalityCult	Kim Il Sung personality cult →
nature	symbolic →
officeType	non-executive →
originalLanguageName	조선민주주의인민공화국 영원한 주석 →
politicalSystemContext	one-party socialist state →
posthumous	true →
reasonForCreation	to enshrine Kim Il Sung as eternal head of state →
region	East Asia →
replacedOffice	President of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea →
role	head of state in perpetuity →
shortName	Eternal President of the Republic →
status	in force →
succession	non-successional → office not to be held by any other person →
symbolicFunction	legitimization of North Korean leadership → personification of the North Korean state →
titleHolder	Kim Il Sung →
titleHolderBirthDate	1912-04-15 →
titleHolderBirthPlace	Mangyongdae, near Pyongyang →
titleHolderCountry	North Korea →
titleHolderDeathDate	1994-07-08 →
uniqueTitleHolderCount	1 →
usedInPropaganda	true →

Referenced by (1)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Kim Il Sung →	honorificTitle