Documented path
Kim was born in Pyongyang, North Korea, and played for Amrokgang in the DPR Korea League. He represented the North Korean national team from 2005, appearing in World Cup qualifiers at age 20-21. He was named to North Korea's 23-man squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup at age 25, the country's first World Cup appearance since 1966.
Born in 1984 in Pyongyang, North Korea; he grew up in the North Korean football system and played as a goalkeeper for April 25 Sports Club, a military-linked team in the DPR Korea Premier Football League.
North Korean international footballer; plays as a goalkeeper; current status not widely documented in international media.
Where the conditions came from
Each is placed on a −1 to 3 scale from documented evidence, and the three are never added together. A combined total would rank Kim Myong-gil against other people. Held apart, they explain why this path ran differently from another one—which is the only comparison this project supports.
The marble itself
+1Tailwind
What capability, drive, or early skill is documented in the person rather than their surroundings?
Goalkeeper who represented North Korea in World Cup qualifiers from age 20-21 and made the 2010 World Cup squad at 25. No specific prodigy indicators or exceptional early achievement documented.
Where it was dropped
0Neither way
What money, family standing, network, or permission was already in place before the work began?
No family background information available. Born in Pyongyang, North Korea. Career shaped by the North Korean state sports system.
The shape of the track
+1Tailwind
What place, timing, institution, or peer group made the next step available?
North Korean state sports system. Amrokgang Sports Club in the DPR Korea League. National team from 2005. 2010 World Cup squad (North Korea's first since 1966). Limited infrastructure and isolation from international football development.
A −1 is a documented headwind, not a missing value; a 0 means the sources record nothing notable either way. Annotation confidence: Low. These are analyst readings of what the sources record, not measurements of merit, talent, or effort. The twenty-two scored dimensions remain available inside the deeper research detail.
What moved through the conditions
This records repeated behaviour or recovery described by sources; it is not a grit or merit score.
A successful-only archive cannot recover all encounters, avoided setbacks, or alternative outcomes.
Strongest documented signals: Elite institution pipeline, Direct domain exposure, Adversity / constraint catalyst.
Describes the starting position, not what the person later made of it.
Strongest observed levers: Started serious reps before 20, Domain proximity, Prior reps.
Measures what was present, not whether it was inherited, earned, self-built, external, or mixed.
The timeline below shows the sequence of work and transitions around the selected early milestone. It is evidence of a path, not proof that every step was necessary.
Notable, but primarily known within a niche. The tier summarizes documented career recognition through the data cutoff—not Kim Myong-gil's worth or future potential.
Question four · where did the leverage come from?
Each non-zero lever gets a best-supported origin, evidence signals, and confidence. Unresolved is the honest default when the biography cannot distinguish self-built, advantage-enabled, earned, external, or mixed.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
This is a bounded inference from the current annotations—not a claim about private effort, merit, or the percentage of Kim Myong-gil's outcome attributable to any origin.
Structural luck, Encounter luck, Event luck, Outcome variance can change every arrow in the path. This successful-only dataset cannot observe the near-identical paths that did not break through, so luck stays visible and unscored.
Multiplying capacity documented later in the path. Measures what was present, not whether it was inherited, earned, self-built, external, or mixed.
Access or conditions documented near the beginning of the path. Zero means "no clear evidence in reviewed sources," not "advantage was absent."
Not documented in reviewed sources.
Not documented in reviewed sources.
Kim Myong-gil was born in Pyongyang, North Korea, and played for Amrokgang in the DPR Korea League. He represented the North Korean national team from 2005, appearing in World Cup qualifiers at age 20-21. He was named to North Korea's 23-man squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup at age 25, the country's first World Cup appearance since 1966. Little is documented about his family background or early training in the North Korean state sports system.
advantage confidence: Low · source count: 3 · audit: source_verified · status: subagent_researched_beta