What is Kim Jong-il?
{{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = [[His Excellency]]<br/> [[Eternal leaders of North Korea|Eternal Leader]]<br/> [[Generalissimo]] | name = Kim Jong-il | native_name = {{No bold|김정일}} | image = Kim Jong il Portrait-2.jpg | image_size = | caption = Official portrait issued after his death, 2011 | office1 = [[Supreme Leader of North Korea]] | premier1 = Hong Song-nam<br />Pak Pong-ju<br />Kim Yong-il<br />Choe Yong-rim | term_start1 = 8 July 1994 | term_end1 = 17 December 2011<ref>{{cite news|title=North Korea backs son after Kim Jong-Il death|url=http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ggTRbHnVT9qA8_cbG0p5dkbChBvA?docId=CNG.f422d650d5b8ced9ed3fbdc8e3558b87.e1|agency=Agence France-Presse|accessdate=15 November 2013|archive-date=8 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120108015438/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ggTRbHnVT9qA8_cbG0p5dkbChBvA?docId=CNG.f422d650d5b8ced9ed3fbdc8e3558b87.e1|url-status=dead}}</ref> | predecessor1 = [[Kim Il-sung]] <small>(as President)</small> | successor1 = [[Kim Jong-un]] | office2 = General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea | deputy2 = Kim Yong-nam<br />Choe Yong-rim<br />Jo Myong-rok<br />Ri Yong-ho | term_start2 = 8 October 1997 | term_end2 = 17 December 2011 | predecessor2 = Kim Il-sung | successor2 = Position abolished<br /><small>(Proclaimed Eternal Party General Secretary after his death)</small> | office4 = Chairman of the National Defence Commission of North Korea | deputy4 = Jo Myong-rok | term_start4 = 9 April 1993 | term_end4 = 17 December 2011 | predecessor4 = Kim Il-sung | successor4 = Position abolished as Kim Jong-il was declared as the Eternal Chairman on 13 April 2012 | office5 = Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army | term_start5 = 24 December 199