# List of awards and honours received by Kim Il Sung

Kim Il Sung was the founder and first leader of North Korea. According to North Korean sources, the country awarded him "the title of Hero of the DPRK three times, the title of Labour Hero of the DPRK, 26 orders and 3 medals". In addition, foreign countries and organizations conferred upon him 74 orders and 152 medals.

## North Korean

| Award or decoration | Date |
| Order of the National Flag (1st Class with Neck Chain, six times) | 6 February 1951, 28 July 1953 |
| Hero of Labor | 7 September 1958 |
| Hero of the Republic (thrice) | 28 July 1953, 15 April 1972, April 1982 |
| Order Commemoration of the Founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (twice) | |
| Order of Freedom and Independence (1st Class, twice) | 1953 |
| Medal for Agricultural Merits | |
| Medal of Military Service Honour | |
| Commemorative Order "60th Year Anniversary of the Fatherland Liberation War Victory" | posthumous |
| Commemorative Order "70th Year Anniversary Of the Fatherland Liberation War Victory" | posthumous |

## Foreign

| Award or decoration | Country | Date |
| Order of Liberty [sq] (1st Class) | PSR Albania | June 1956 |
| National Gold Medal | Laos | 3 February 1992 |
| Order of Lenin (twice) | Soviet Union | 14 April 1972, 14 April 1987 |
| Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" | Soviet Union | 8 May 1970 |
| Order of the Red Banner | Soviet Union | 29 August 1945 |
| Medal "For the Victory over Japan" | Soviet Union | 30 September 1945 |
| Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" | Soviet Union | 15 August 1975 |
| Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" | Soviet Union | 9 May 1985 |
| Order of the Yugoslav Star (Great Star) | SFR Yugoslavia | 29 August 1977 |
| Order of Karl Marx (twice) | East Germany | 15 April 1982, 15 April 1987 |
| National Order of the Thousand Hills (Grand Cross) | Rwanda | 15 June 1978 |
| Star of the Republic of Indonesia (1st Class) | Indonesia | 10 April 1965 |
| Order of Georgi Dimitrov (twice) | PR Bulgaria | October 1973, 11 April 1987 |
| 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Georgi Dimitrov [cs] | PR Bulgaria | 28 January 1983 |
| Order of Mono (Grand Cross) | Togo | 11 September 1974 |
| Order of José Martí (twice) | Cuba | 13 April 1982, 10 March 1986 |
| Order of Playa Girón | Cuba | 4 April 1987 |
| Xirka Ġieħ ir-Repubblika (Honorary Member) | Malta | 1 August 1985 |
| Order of the Grand Star of Honour of Socialist Ethiopia (Grand Cross) | Ethiopia | 10 November 1985 |
| Augusto Cesar Sandino Order [es] (Batalla de San Jacinto, 1st Class) | Nicaragua | 25 August 1986 |
| Gold Star Order | Vietnam | 9 September 1988 |
| Order of Victory of Socialism | SR Romania | 15 April 1987 |
| Order of the Star of the Romanian Socialist Republic (twice, 1st Class and 1st Class with Band) | SR Romania | 6 July 1972, 9 April 1982 |
| 75-year Anniversary Parliamentary Medal | Finland | 1981 |
| Order of Klement Gottwald | Czechoslovak Socialist Republic | 29 January 1987 |
| Order of the White Lion (1st Class with Collar) | Czechoslovak Socialist Republic | 7 June 1973 |
| 30th Anniversary of Liberation Medal [cs] | Czechoslovakia | May 1975 |
| Order of Polonia Restituta (Grand Cross, 1st Class) | Polish People's Republic | 5 July 1956 |
| Order of the Umayyads (Grand Belt) | Ba'athist Syria | 25 September 1974 |
| National Order of Mali (Grand Cross) | Mali | 18 May 1976 |
| Order of the Star of Palestine [ar] | Palestine | 26 July 1993 |
| Royal Order of Cambodia (Grand Cross) | First Kingdom of Cambodia | 9 October 1965 |
| Order of National Independence [nl] | First Kingdom of Cambodia | |
| National Order of Madagascar (Grand Cross, 1st Class) | DR Madagascar | 6 October 1985 |
| Order of Sukhbaatar (twice) | Mongolian People's Republic | January 1953, 29 June 1988 |
| Order of Eduardo Mondlane (1st Class) | PR Mozambique | 14 July 1984 |
| Order of the Gold Star of Nahouri | Burkina Faso | 5 September 1985 |
| Order of Operation Bokassa [fr] (Grand Cross) | Central African Republic | 1 May 1978 |
| Order of Central African Merit (Grand Cross with Necklace) | Central African Republic | 1 May 1978 |
| November 17 Medal | International Union of Students | 17 January 1986 |
| Order of Independence (Grand Cross) | Equatorial Guinea | 18 April 1992 |
| National Order of Merit (Grand Cross) | Guinea | 24 May 2005 |
| Ongulumbashe Medal | Namibia | 11 September 1992 |
| Order of the Equatorial Star | Gabon | May 1977 |
| Order of Amílcar Cabral [es] | Guinea-Bissau | 15 April 1982 |
| 30th Anniversary of Victory Over Fascist Germany [cs] | PR Bulgaria | June 1975 |
| National Order of Merit (Grand Cross) | Mauritania | 30 May 1975 |
| National Order of the Republic | Burundi | 22 March 1979 |
| Order of Merit of the People's Republic of Poland (Grand Ribbon) | Polish People's Republic | 31 March 1987 |
| Order of the Great 1st September Revolution [uk] (twice) | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | 30 September 1989, 18 April 1992 |
| Order of the Grand Conqueror [cs] | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | |
| Order of Excellence of Guyana | Guyana | |
| National Order of the Leopard (Grand Cordon) | Zaire | April 1992 |
| National Order of Niger [nl] (Grand Cross) | Niger | 20 September 1986 |
| Order of the Grand Companion of Freedom (1st Class) | Zambia | 26 February 1988 |
| Congolese Order of Merit [fr] (Grand Cross) | PR Congo | 14 March 1983 |
| Order of the Nile (Necklace) | Egypt | 4 April 1983 |
| National Order of the People's Republic of Benin (Grand Cross) | PR Benin | 10 July 1976 |
| National Order of the Lion (Grand Cross) | Senegal | |
| Order of the 14th of October [ar] | South Yemen | |