Kim Jong-il - Official Titles

Official Titles

• Party Center of the WPK and Member, Central Committee of the WPK (1970s)
• Dear Leader (Chinaehaneun Jidoja) (late 1970s–1994)
• Member, Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK
• Secretary, Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (1974–1997)
• Presidium Member of the Politburo, WPK Central Committee (1980–2011)
• Supreme Commander, Korean People's Army (25 December 1991 – 17 December 2011)
• Marshal of the DPRK (1993–2011)
• Chairman, National Defence Commission of North Korea (1993–2011)
• Great Leader (Widehan Ryongdoja) (July 1994 – December 2011)
• General Secretary, Workers' Party of Korea (October 1997 – December 2011)
• Chairman, Central Military Commission (DPRK) (October 1997 – December 2011)
• Eternal Leader (posthumous) (January 2012 – present)
• Generalissimo of the DPRK (posthumous) (January 2012 – present)
• Eternal General Secretary, Worker's Party of Korea (posthumous) (11 April 2012 – present)
• Eternal Chairman of the National Defence of Commission (posthumous) (13 April 2012 - present)