Case file · Apparition / miracle
Kim Jong Il's birth on Mount Paektu
North Korean doctrine says Kim Jong Il was born in a secret guerrilla camp on Paektu in 1942, under a double rainbow and a new bright star.
1942 CE · 41.91, 128.21 · status: claim
The account
The log cabin at the 'Paektusan Secret Camp' is a pilgrimage site and the nearby peak was renamed Jong Il Peak.
The sceptical view
Soviet records and most historians place his birth in the village of Vyatskoye near Khabarovsk, USSR, possibly in 1941.