Kim Man-il
From Kazakhstan Encyclopedia
Template:Refimprove Kim Man-il (Template:Korean; 1944–1947/8) was the second son and child of North Korean leader Kim Il-sung and his first wife, Kim Jong-suk.
Soviet records show that he was born Alexander Irsenovich Kim (Template:Lang-ru) 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.[1]
North Korean based sources claim that in the summer of 1947 or 1948, Shura and his brother were playing in a pond in the city of Pyongyang, when Shura accidentally drowned.[2] Russian sources indicate that he drowned in a well in Vyatskoye, prior to the family moving back to Korea.[3] 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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