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Kim Young-sook (김영숙; born 1947) was the second wife of Kim Jong Il. [1] [failed verification] She was the daughter of a high-ranking military official, and was a switchboard operator in North Hamgyong Province before moving to Pyongyang. [2] Kim Jong Il's father, Kim Il Sung, handpicked her to marry his son. [2]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 January 2025. Leader of North Korea from 1994 to 2011 For the South Korean long jumper, see Kim Jong-il (long jumper). In this Korean name, the family name is Kim. Eternal General Secretary Kim Jong Il 김정일 Kim in August 2011 General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea In office 8 October ...
Hong Il-chon (Korean: 홍일천; born 1942) was the first wife of Kim Jong Il. She was the daughter of a soldier who died during the Korean War. In the early 1960s, Kim Il Sung, father of Kim Jong Il, introduced her to his son and handpicked her to marry him in 1966. Her only child, daughter Kim Hye-gyong, was born in 1968, and is the first ...
The BBC, quoting an analyst who spoke to The Korea Times of South Korea, reported that Kim's father, Kim Jong Il, had hastily arranged his son's marriage after suffering a stroke in 2008. The two were reportedly married in 2009. [20] [21] Her identity as Kim Jong Un's wife first became known to the public in July 2012. [5]
The Kim family, officially the Mount Paektu bloodline (Korean: 백두혈통), named for Paektu Mountain, in the ideological discourse of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), and often referred to as the Kim dynasty after the Cold War's end, is a three-generation lineage of North Korean leadership, descending from the country's founder and first leader, Kim Il Sung.
Kim Jong Il's second child with Ko, the present North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un, followed one to three years after Jong-chul. Their third child, Kim Yo Jong, a daughter, was believed to be about 23 in 2012. [14] [15] However, the birth year of Kim Yo Jong is also given as 1987. [12]
Kim Jong Il’s birthday reportedly became an official holiday in 1982, when he turned 40. ... a Japan-born dancer who was known as his father's third or fourth wife. Ko's links to Japan, which ...
Kim Yo Jong is the youngest child of former North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Il and his wife, Ko Yong Hui. [7] The U.S. Treasury lists her birthdate as 26 September 1989, [8] while South Korean sources place her birth on 26 September 1987.