Kim Man-il
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Kim Man-il (Hangul: 김만일; hanja: 金萬一; Vyatskoye, 1944 – , Pyongyang 1947/8) was the second son and child of North Korean leader Kim Il-sung and his first wife, Kim Jong-suk.
He was born in 1944 in the Russian village of Vyatskoye. Inside his family, he was nicknamed Shura. Official North Korean biographies state that Shura and his older brother Kim Jong-il got along very well and played together.
In the summer of 1947 or 1948, Shura and his brother were playing in a pond in the city of Pyongyang, when Shura mysteriously drowned. Official records state that Kim Jong-il was devastated and could never get over the trauma of losing his younger brother. In 1949, his mother, Kim Jong-suk died while giving birth to a stillborn girl.
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