Kim is the grandson of Kim Il Sung, the founder of the North Korean state.
The bad news is that it was bestowed by Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang.
The government presented its first budget since 1994, when President Kim Il Sung died.
"They paid high tribute to Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il before their statues, " KCNA reported.
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Loyalty to Kim Il Sung had been forged by a guerrilla war against Japanese imperialists waged in Manchuria.
The young man showed a striking resemblance to his father and grandfather, Kim Il Sung, the North Korean founder.
Starting from Kim Il Sung, the founder of North Korea, the North Korean regime has never fully trusted China.
That is the kind of behavior associated with his grandfather, Kim Il Sung.
The procession resembled the one held after Kim Il Sung's death in 1994.
He was born--it is believed--in Siberia, where his father Kim Il Sung was being trained as a technocrat under Stalin.
He was president of Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, and academics are respected on both sides of the border.
The launch also coincided with celebrations surrounding the 100th anniversary of the birth of its late founding leader, Kim Il Sung.
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He spat on it, and bowed in respect to the memory of Kim Il Sung, the late dictator of North Korea.
Mr. Kim took power after the death in July 1994 of his father, Kim Il Sung, who founded North Korea in 1948.
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Then, after the death of North Korea's leader, Kim Il Sung, the number soared to 52 from eight in the previous year.
These camps were the legacy of a 1967 Brezhnev-era deal between the Soviet Union and the North Korean regime of Kim Il Sung.
Many suspected the launch would happen Monday, on the birthday of Mr. Kim's late grandfather, Kim Il Sung, the founder of North Korea.
Huge pictures of the late Great Leader, Kim Il Sung, and his son, the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il, were all over the place.
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North Korean media also reported that he watched volleyball and basketball games between Kim Il Sung University of Politics and Kim Il Sung Military University.
But Kim Jong Il did spend some time inspecting sites related to the revolutionary days in China of his own late father, Kim Il Sung.
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Mr. Kim, 66 years old, has led North Korea since the death in 1994 of his father, Kim Il Sung, who consolidated power in 1948.
At a ceremony in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Plaza on Sept. 2, 63 elderly Koreans were accorded the kind of welcome reserved for returning war heroes.
Mr. Kim began his speech by describing his "purest respect and greatest honor to comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, " his grandfather and father.
Kim Jong Il appears to have consolidated his power after taking over from his father, Kim Il Sung, who died of a heart attack in 1994.
In 1991 he struck a deal with Kim Il Sung, the late North Korean leader, to develop Mount Kumkang in the north into a tourist resort.
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