Editing Kim Il-sung (section)

== Personal life ==
[[File:Kim family.jpg|thumb|260x260px|Kim ll-sung and his first wife<span> </span>Kim Jong-suk with their son, [[Kim Jong-il]].|link=Special:FilePath/Kim_family.jpg]]
Kim Il-sung married twice. His first wife, Kim Jong-suk (1917–1949), gave birth to two sons before her death in childbirth during the delivery of a stillborn girl. Kim Jong-il was his oldest son. The other son (Kim Man-il, or Shaura Kim) of this marriage died in 1947 in a swimming accident.

Kim married Kim Song-ae in 1952, and it is believed that he had three children with her: Kim Yŏng-il (not to be confused with the former Premier of North Korea with the same name), Kim Kyŏng-il, and Kim Pyong-il. Kim Pyong-il was prominent in Korean politics until he became ambassador to Hungary.

In 2015, Kim Pyong-il became ambassador to the Czech Republic, but officially retired in 2019 and resides once again in North Korea. Kim was reported to have had other children with women who he was not married to. They included Kim Hyŏn-nam (born 1972, head of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Workers' Party since 2002).

=== Works ===
Kim Il-sung was the author of many works. According to North Korean sources, these amount to approximately 10,800 speeches, reports, books, treatises, and others. 

Some, such as the 100-volume ''Complete Collection of Kim Il-sung's Works'' (김일성전집), are published by the Workers' Party of Korea Publishing House. Shortly before his death, he published an eight-volume autobiography, ''With the Century''.

According to official North Korean sources, Kim Il-sung was the original writer of many plays and operas. One of these, ''The Flower Girl'', a revolutionary theatrical opera, was adapted into a locally produced feature film in 1972.