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The Kumsusan Memorial Palace, sometimes referred to as the Kim Il-sung Mausoleum, is a large building located northeast of downtown Pyongyang
Pyongyang

Pyongyang is the Capital and largest city of North Korea, located on the Taedong River, at . According to preliminary results from the 2008 population census, it has a population of 3,255,388....
, the capital city of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). The palace is claimed to have been the former official residence
Official residence

An official residence is the House at which heads of state, heads of government, gubernatorial or other senior figures officially reside. They may or may not be the same location where they conduct their work-related functions....
 and office of North Korea's president and founder, "Great Leader" Kim Il-sung
Kim Il-sung

Kim Il-sung was the president and absolute ruler of North Korea from its founding in early 1948 until his death, when he was succeeded by his son Kim Jong-il....
. Following Kim Il-sung's death in 1994, it is said that his son and successor, Kim Jong-il
Kim Jong-il

Kim Jong-il is the de facto leader of the North Korea. He is the Chairman of the National Defense Commission of North Korea, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, and General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea ....
, had the building renovated and transformed into his father's final resting place.






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The Kumsusan Memorial Palace, sometimes referred to as the Kim Il-sung Mausoleum, is a large building located northeast of downtown Pyongyang
Pyongyang

Pyongyang is the Capital and largest city of North Korea, located on the Taedong River, at . According to preliminary results from the 2008 population census, it has a population of 3,255,388....
, the capital city of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). The palace is claimed to have been the former official residence
Official residence

An official residence is the House at which heads of state, heads of government, gubernatorial or other senior figures officially reside. They may or may not be the same location where they conduct their work-related functions....
 and office of North Korea's president and founder, "Great Leader" Kim Il-sung
Kim Il-sung

Kim Il-sung was the president and absolute ruler of North Korea from its founding in early 1948 until his death, when he was succeeded by his son Kim Jong-il....
. Following Kim Il-sung's death in 1994, it is said that his son and successor, Kim Jong-il
Kim Jong-il

Kim Jong-il is the de facto leader of the North Korea. He is the Chairman of the National Defense Commission of North Korea, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, and General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea ....
, had the building renovated and transformed into his father's final resting place. Deep inside the vast palace, Kim Il Sung's embalmed body lies viewable in state inside a clear sarcophagus.

The palace is situated in a secluded area in Pyongyang and is only accessible to foreigners on official government tours. It is a popular belief that foreigners are not allowed to see the embalmed body of Kim Il-sung, however this is untrue. Photography is not permitted in any shape or form. It is fronted by a massive square and is bordered on its northern and eastern sides by a moat
Moat

A moat is deep, broad trench, usually filled with water, that surrounds a structure, installation, or town, normally to provide it with a preliminary line of Defense ....
. Along with the Juche Tower
Juche Tower

The Juche Tower is a monument in Pyongyang, North Korea. Completed in 1982, it is sited on the eastern bank of the River Taedong, directly opposite Kim Il Sung Square which is situated on the other side of the river....
, the Arch of Triumph
Arch of Triumph (Pyongyang)

The Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang was built to commemorate the Korean resistance to Japan from 1925 to 1945.Built in 1982 on the Triumph Return Square at the foot of Moran Hill in the North Korean capital city of Pyongyang, the monument was built to honour and glorify President Kim Il-sung's role in the resistance against Korea under Japa...
, Kim Il-sung Square
Kim Il-sung Square

Kim Il-sung Square is a city square in Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and is named after the founding leader of the DPRK, Kim Il-sung....
, and the Mansudae Grand Monument, the Kumsusan Memorial Palace is one of the most important landmarks in Pyongyang and the most sacred site of all of North Korea.

North Korea is one of four nations that house the embalmed corpses of their founding leaders in mausoleums. The other three leaders so honoured are Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin , born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov and also known by the pseudonyms V.I. Lenin and N. Lenin, was a Russians revolutionary, a Bolshevik Communism politician, the principal leader of the October Revolution and the first head of the USSR....
 in Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
, Russia
Russia

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 (formerly Russian SFSR
Russian SFSR

The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic , also called the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, the Russian SFSR and the RSFSR for short, was the largest and most populous of the fifteen Republics of the Soviet Union of the Soviet Union and became the Russian Federation after the collapse of the Soviet Union....
, Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
), Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh

H? Ch? Minh was a Vietnamese communism revolutionary and statesman who was Prime Minister and President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ....
 in Hanoi
Hanoi

Hanoi , estimated population 3,398,889 , is the Capital of Vietnam. From 1010 until 1802, with a few brief interruptions, it was the political centre of an independent Vietnam....
, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong was a China military and politics dictator. Mao led the Communist Party of China to victory against the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War, and was the leader of the People?s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976....
 in Beijing
Beijing

is a metropolis in northern China and the Capital of the People's Republic of China. It is one of the four municipality of China, which are equivalent to province in China's Political divisions of China....
, People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

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.

See also

  • Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum
    Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum

    File:Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum.jpgFile:Mausol?e de H? Chi Minh.jpgThe H? Ch? Minh Mausoleum is a large memorial to the Vietnamese leader in Hanoi,Vietnam....
  • Lenin's Mausoleum
    Lenin's Mausoleum

    Lenin's Mausoleum also known as Lenin's Tomb, situated in Red Square in Moscow, is the mausoleum that serves as the current cemetery of Vladimir Lenin....
  • Mausoleum of Mao Zedong
    Mausoleum of Mao Zedong

    The Chairman Mao Memorial Hall , commonly known as the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong, or the Mao Mausoleum, is the final resting place of Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China of the Communist Party of China from 1943 and the chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China from 1945 un...
  • Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum
    Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum

    The Mausoleum of Dr. Sun Yat-sen is situated at the foot of the second peak of Mount Zijin in Nanjing, China. Construction of the tomb started in January of 1926 and was finished in spring of 1929....

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