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Bayadha (distrito)

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Bayadha    Distrito    Localização do distrito dentro da província de El Oued Coordenadas 33° 20' N 6° 55' E País  Argélia ...

Why is North-Korean communist leader Kim Il-sung called Kim Ir Sen in some languages?

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23 3 Looking on Wikipedia I see that in many of the languages of the former communist countries, namely East European, the North Korean leader Kim Il Sung (or Song) (1912-1994) is called Kim Ir Sen. (I am posting the Polish page because it has more links to other languages than other pages have.) The difference is not in the family name - which is Kim. It seems a difference based on the former political divide of the Cold War, as in French and other West European languages, but also in Turkish and Greek (Turkey and Greece already being NATO members at the time), the name used is the same as in English. On Wikipedia I have not found a non (former) communist country that calls him Kim Ir Sen . I see no linguistic similarity between countries using the same form of the name (Russian, Latvian, Albanian, Romanian shar...