56 minutes of diplomatic flexing from history's most dedicated meeting-scheduler.
The film tells the viewers that the President met with over 70,000 heads of party and state and prominent figures from 136 countries from March Juche 38 (1949) till the last moments of his life. It also records the facts that he made 54 official and unofficial visits to 87 countries for 685 days.
Production
Impressive archival footage spanning 27 years of meticulously documented handshakes.
Editing
Relentless montage structure that somehow makes 70,000 meetings feel like 70,000 meetings.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released in 1976, this was part of a systematic Juche-era project to quantify Kim Il-sung's international legitimacy through sheer arithmetic of diplomatic encounters.
The 70,000 figure includes party officials and 'prominent figures,' massively inflating what would typically count as 'heads of state' meetings in Western diplomatic records—a deliberate narrative strategy.
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