Kim Il Sung was the President of North Korea DPRK from 1948 to 1994, and posthumously, the Eternal President since 1998. Mount Paektu became the spiritual and mythical birthplace of both the Korean people and the Kim dynasty, when Kim Il Sung died on 8 July 1994, he was amended by the constitution which declared posthumously as the Eternal President on 5 September 1998, where he reigned eternally as the world's only nation to have necrocracy, when it abolish the living presidency. North Korea became the only country in the world to have necrocracy, a state governed by a deceased leader which formally abolished the living office of the presidency by the Constitution of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.