Death and state funeral of Kim Il Sung

1994 death of North Korean leader Death and state funeral of Kim Il SungOfficial posthumous portraitDate8–17 July 1994LocationPyongyang, North KoreaParticipantsKim Jong Il and North Korean military, government and Korean Workers' Party elites Part of a series on the History of North Korea Division of Korea 1945–1948 People's Republic of Korea 1945–1946 Soviet Civil Administration 1945–1948 Provisional People's Committee of North Korea 1946–1948 Kim Il Sung 1948–1994 Korean War 1950–1953 Korean DMZ Conflict 1966–1969 Juche 1972 1993–1994 nuclear crisis 1993–1994 Death and state funeral of Kim Il Sung 1994 Kim Jong Il 1994–2011 North Korean famine 1994–1999 Songun 1998 Sunshine Policy 1998–2010 Six-party talks 2003 ROKS Cheonan sinking 2010 Death and state funeral of Kim Jong Il 2011 Kim Jong Un 2011–present State Affairs Commission 2016 2017–2018 North Korean crisis 2017–2018 Korean peace process 2018–2019 COVID-19 pandemic 2019–2023 North Korea portalvte Kim Il Sung, founder and supreme leader of North Korea, died of a heart attack in the early morning of 8 July 1994 at age 82. North Korea's government did not report the death for more than 34 ho