北韩领导人金正日星期二晋升35名将军，纪念这个共产党国家的主要节日之一、他已故父亲的生日。北韩官方媒体报导说，金正日为庆祝这个节日，提拔了两名中将和33名少将。金正日经常利用诸如生日之类的重大节日提拔军事将领，这些人是他领导层的中坚力量。
金正日的父亲金日成死于1994年，终年82岁，但仍然保留着“不朽的主席”的称呼。
金正日在父亲死后接管了北韩。尽管北韩濒于崩溃的经济以及1990年代中期爆发造成数十万人死亡的饥荒，金正日依然维持着强烈个人崇拜。
North Korean leader Kim Jung Il marked one of the communist country’s biggest national holidays Tuesday, the birthday of his late father, by promoting 35 generals. North Korea’s state media reported that Kim promoted two officers to lieutenant general and 33 others to major general to mark the holiday. Kim often uses major holidays such as birthdays to promote military generals, the backbone of his leadership.
Kim’s father, Kim Il Sung died in 1994 at the age of 82, but still holds the title of “eternal president.”
The younger Kim took over the country after his father’s death and has maintained a strong personality cult, despite North Korea’s collapsing economy and a famine in the mid-1990s that left hundreds of thousands dead.