Kim Man-il
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Kim Man-il | |
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| 김만일 | |
| Born | Alexander Irsenovich Kim c. 1944 |
| Died | 1947–1948 (aged 3–4) Pyongyang, Soviet Korea (North Korean sources) Vyatskoye, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (Soviet records) |
| Cause of death | Drowning |
| Parent(s) | Kim Il Sung Kim Jong-suk |
| Family | Kim family |
Kim Man-il (Korean: 김만일; Hanja: 金萬一; 1944–1947/1948) was the second son of the North Korean founding leader Kim Il Sung and his first wife Kim Jong-suk. He was the younger brother of Kim Jong Il, the second leader of North Korea.
Biography[edit]
Soviet records show that he was born Alexander Irsenovich Kim (Russian: Александр Ирсенович Ким) in 1944 in the village of Vyatskoye, Khabarovsk Krai, Soviet Union. Inside his family, he went by the Russian diminutive nickname for "Alexander": Shura (Russian: Шура).[citation needed]
Official North Korean biographies state that he and his older brother Kim Jong Il got along very well and played together.[1]
Death[edit]
There are conflicting accounts of Kim Man-il's death. North Korean sources claim that in the summer of 1947 or 1948, he accidentally drowned while playing with his brother in a pond in Pyongyang.[2] However, Russian sources indicate that he fell in a well in Vyatskoye and drowned, prior to the family moving back to Korea.[3] Chinese sources indicate that the two brothers were playing in the pond near the edge in chest-high water. Kim Jong Il raised his face above the water faster than Shura, and pushed his younger brother's head back into the water and held it underwater while laughing, yelling and swearing at him, eventually drowning him in the process.
Official North Korean records state that, after Kim Man-il's death, Kim Jong Il was devastated and never got over the trauma. A grave allegedly belonging to Kim Man-il is located in Vyatskoye.[4] A year after his death, in 1949, his mother Kim Jong-suk died while giving birth to a stillborn girl.
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Notes and references[edit]
- ^ Both Jerrold Post in Post, Jerrold M. (2008). "Kim Jong-Il of North Korea: In the shadow of his father". International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. 5 (3): 191–210. doi:10.1002/aps.167. and Robert Davison who publishes The Inquisitor cite North Korean defector Yi Ki-bong (이기봉, 李基奉) for statements that shed some doubt on this. Davison quotes from Yi's book, What Kind of Man is Kim Jong II [sic: Kim, Chŏng-il] (most likely Yi's chapter in 민족사 입장 에서 본 김 일성 정권): “Kim was very mischievous when a child. When he saw an insect, he trampled on it. After Korea’s liberation from Japanese occupation, the Kim II-sung family lived in a house in Mansu-tong, Central District, P’yongyang. In the early summer of 1948, his younger brother, Shura (then three years old) drowned. Kim Jong II was there at the time. I learned later how the accident occurred. The two brothers were playing in the pond right by the edge. Kim Jong II raised his face faster than his brother, and pushed his brother’s face back into water. He did that over and over.” Davison, Robert (26 August 2009). "Despot of the Week #5 – Kim Jong II". Archived from the original on 30 August 2009.
- ^ None of the sources appear to be entirely authoritative, and many show a bias towards or opposed to the Kim regime. "Kim Family". North Korea Leadership Watch. 25 September 2009. Archived from the original on 17 July 2015. gives a date of July 1947. Sources such as Behnke, Alison (2008). Kim Jong Il's North Korea (first ed.). Minneapolis, Minnesota: Twenty-First Century Books. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-8225-7282-4. give a generic 1947. While sources like North Korea: General Secretary Kim Jong-il Handbook. Washington, D.C.: International Business Publications. 2002. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-7397-6344-5. give a generic 1948.
- ^ Chung Byoung-sun (22 August 2002). "Sergeyevna Remembers Kim Jong Il". The Chosun Ilbo. Archived from the original on 24 November 2002.
- ^ "Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea". The Chosun Ilbo. Archived from the original on 24 November 2002. Retrieved 12 January 2022.