# List of international trips made by Kim Il Sung

The following is a list of international trips made by Kim Il Sung during his tenure as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Premier and President of North Korea. His first international state visit was to the Soviet Union in 1949.
The number of visits per country where he traveled are:
* One visit to Albania, Indonesia, Mauritania and Algeria
* Two visits to Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Mongolia, North Vietnam and Yugoslavia
* Three visits to Bulgaria and Romania
* Ten visits to the Soviet Union
* Eleven visits to China

## Summary of official trips
### 1949

| Date(s) | Country | Locations | Leaders met | Details |
| 3-25 March 1949 | Soviet Union | Moscow | Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin | |

### 1950s

| Date(s) | Country | Locations | Leaders met | Details |
| 10-23 September 1953 | Soviet Union | Moscow | Premier of the Soviet Union Georgy Malenkov | State visit. |
| 10-27 November 1953 | China | Beijing | Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong | State visit. |
| 28 September-5 October 1954 | China | Beijing | Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong | Attended the Chinese National Day Parade in honor of the 5th anniversary of the PRC. |
| 1-6 June 1956 | Soviet Union | Moscow | First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev | The August Faction Incident took place. |
| 7-12 June 1956 | East Germany | East Berlin | President of East Germany Wilhelm Pieck | State visit. |
| 13-17 June 1956 | Romania | Bucharest | General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej | State visit. |
| 17-20 June 1956 | Hungary | Budapest | Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Hungarian People's Republic Mátyás Rákosi | State visit. |
| 21-25 June 1956 | Czechoslovakia | Prague Plzeň | First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and President of Czechoslovakia Antonín Zápotocký | State visit. |
| 25-26 June 1956 | Bulgaria | Sofia | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party Todor Zhivkov | state visit |
| 29 June-1 July 1956 | Albania | Tirana | First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania Enver Hoxha | |
| 2-6 July 1956 | Poland | Warsaw | First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party Edward Ochab | |
| 6-16 July 1956 | Soviet Union | Moscow | First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev | |
| 16-18 July 1956 | Mongolian People's Republic | Ulan Bator | General Secretary of the Mongolian People's Party Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal | State visit. |
| 4-21 November 1957 | Soviet Union | Moscow | First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev | Celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution as well as the 1957 International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties. |
| 21-28 November 1958 | China | Beijing | Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong | |
| 28 November-2 December 1958 | North Vietnam | Hanoi | Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh | |
| 14 January-6 February 1959 | Soviet Union | Moscow | First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev | |
| 1 October 1959 | China | Beijing | Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong | Attended the Chinese National Day Parade in honor of the 10th anniversary of the PRC. |

### 1960s

| Date(s) | Country | Locations | Leaders met | Details |
| 3-25 March 1961 | Soviet Union | Moscow | First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev | |
| 17-31 October 1961 | Soviet Union | Moscow | First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev | 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union |
| 11-15 July 1961 | China | Beijing | Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong | Signing of Sino-North Korean Mutual Aid and Cooperation Friendship Treaty |
| November 1964 | North Vietnam | Hanoi | Chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Vietnam Ho Chi Minh | |
| 10-20 April 1965 | Indonesia | Bandung | President of Indonesia Sukarno | Kim delivered a landmark speech "On Socialist Construction in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the South Korean Revolution". |
| 3-7 July 1966 | Romania | Bucharest | General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party Nicolae Ceaușescu | Comecon Summit |
According to some reports, two secret meetings were rumored to have been held between Kim and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in 1966 and 1968 in the USSR, with the first theorized to have taken place on the Soviet cruiser Varyag.

### 1970s

| Date(s) | Country | Locations | Leaders met | Details |
| October 1970 | China | Beijing | Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong | |
| 18-26 April 1975 | China | Beijing | Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong | |
| 22-26 May 1975 | Romania | Bucharest | President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu | State visit. |
| 26-30 May 1975 | Algeria | Algiers | Chairman of Revolutionary Council Houari Boumédiène | State visit. |
| 30 May-4 June 1975 | Mauritania | Nouakchott | President of Mauritania Moktar Ould Daddah | He claimed that the visit was "The greatest event in the history of Mauritania". |
| 4-6 June 1975 | Bulgaria | Sofia | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party Todor Zhivkov | State visit. |
| 5-10 June 1975 | Yugoslavia | Brdo pri Kranju, Bled, Lake Bohinj, Ljubljana | President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito | |

### 1980s

| Date(s) | Country | Locations | Leaders met | Details |
| 7-9 May 1980 | Yugoslavia | Belgrade | President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia Lazar Koliševski | Death and state funeral of Josip Broz Tito |
| 9-13 May 1980 | Romania | Bucharest | President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu | State visit. |
| 15-26 September 1982 | China | Beijing Chengdu | Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Deng Xiaoping | |
| 2-12 June 1983 | China | Beijing | General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Hu Yaobang | |
| 16-27 May 1984 | Soviet Union | Moscow Minsk | General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Konstantin Chernenko | State visit. |
| 27-29 May 1984 | Poland | Warsaw | First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party and Chairman of the Council of State Wojciech Jaruzelski | |
| 29 May-4 June 1984 | East Germany | East Berlin | General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany Erich Honecker | State visit. |
| 4-7 June 1984 | Czechoslovakia | Prague | First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and President of Czechoslovakia Gustáv Husák | State visit. |
| 7-10 June 1984 | Hungary | Budapest | General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party János Kádár | State visit |
| 10-15 June 1984 | Bulgaria | Sofia | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party Todor Zhivkov | State visit. |
| 22-27 October 1986 | Soviet Union | Moscow | General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev | |
| 20-23 May 1987 | China | Beijing | General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Zhao Ziyang | |
| 25 June-1 July 1988 | Mongolian People's Republic | Ulan Bator | General Secretary of the Mongolian People's Party Jambyn Batmönkh | State visit. |

### 1991

| Date(s) | Country | Locations | Leaders met | Details |
| 3-15 October 1991 | China | Beijing | President of the People's Republic of China Yang Shangkun | |