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Kim Hyong-jik (July 10 1894June 5 1926) was the father of the late North Korean dictator Kim Il-sung and the grandfather of the present dictator of North Korea, Kim Jong-il.
Not much is known about him. He was the son of Kim Bo-hyon, attended a school run by American missionaries, and became an herbal pharmacist. He was killed in a raid by Communists, but was later recast for propaganda purposes as an indefatigable Communist revolutionary fighter and a vanguard of the Communist movement who had been killed later.
Kim and his family were active in opposition to the Japanese, who controlled Korea at the time, and in 1920, when Kim Il-sung was seven, they fled to China for safety.
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