Kim Man-il

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In this Korean name, the family name is Kim.
Kim Man-il
김만일
Born
Alexander Irsenovich Kim

c. 1943
Vyatskoye, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died1946–1948 (aged 3–5)
Pyongyang, Soviet Korea (North Korean sources)
Vyatskoye, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (Soviet records)
Cause of deathDrowning
Parent(s)Kim Il Sung
Kim Jong Suk
FamilyKim family

Kim Man-il (Korean: 김만일; Hanja: 金萬一; born Alexander Irsenovich Kim;[a] 1943–1946/1948) 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

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Soviet records show that he was born Alexander Kim in 1943 in the village of Vyatskoye, Khabarovsk Krai, Soviet Union. Inside his family, he went by a 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][unreliable source?]

Death

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There are conflicting accounts of Kim Man-il's death. North Korean sources claim that in the summer of 1946 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] Two North Korean defectors have alleged that the young Kim Jong Il was responsible. When the 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 while laughing, eventually drowning him in the process.[4]

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.[5] A year after his death, in 1949, his mother Kim Jong Suk died while giving birth to a stillborn girl.

The Kim family tree (DPRK)
Na Hyeon-JikKim Song-Ryeong
Lady LeeKim Ŭngu
Yi PoikKim Pohyŏn
Kang Pan SokKim Hyong-jikKim Hyong-gwon
Kim Song-aeKim Il SungKim Jong-sukKim Yong-ju
Kim Pyong-ilKim Jong IlKim Kyong-huiKim Man-il



Notes

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  1. ^ Russian: Александр Ирсенович Ким

References

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  1. ^ Both Jerrold Post in Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). 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 age between three to five 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." Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  2. ^ None of the sources appear to be entirely authoritative and many show a bias towards or opposed to the Kim regime. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). gives a date of July 1947. Sources such as Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). give a generic 1947. While sources like Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). give a generic 1948.
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