From 1972 to 1991, Kim Il-sung served as KPA Supreme Commander concurrently to being DPRK President (i.e. head of state).
He was elected Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly in 1983, after having been a vice-chairman since 1962; in this capacity, he assumed the functions of de facto head of State after Kim Il-sung's death in 1994, as the post of President of the DPRK was never re-assigned; he was however under the actual leadership of the new leader Kim Jong-il.
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