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The Kippumjo (Korean: 기쁨조; translated as Pleasure Squad, Pleasure Brigade, or Pleasure Group), sometimes spelled Kippeumjo (also Gippumjo or Gippeumjo), is an unconfirmed collection of groups of approximately 2,000 women and girls reportedly maintained by the leader of North Korea for the purpose of providing entertainment, including that of a sexual nature, for high-ranking Workers ...
The Statue of Peace (Korean: 평화의 소녀상; RR: Pyeonghwaui sonyeosang; Japanese: 平和の少女像, Heiwano shōjo-zō), often shortened to Sonyeosang in Korean or Shōjo-zō in Japanese (literally "statue of girl") [1] and sometimes called the Comfort Woman Statue (慰安婦像, Ianfu-zō), [2] is a symbol of the victims of sexual slavery, known euphemistically as comfort women, by ...
Ri Sol-ju (Korean: 리설주; born c. 1985–1989) [2] [3] [4] is the current First Lady of North Korea as the wife of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. [5]Little is known about her from official North Korean sources, but outside sources have speculated more about her background.
For the first time, photos released by Pyongyang’s state news agency KCNA on Wednesday showed the dictator’s portrait hung next to those of his father, Kim Jong Il, and grandfather Kim Il Sung.
Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un and first vice department director of the ruling Workers’ Party’s Central Committee, looks on in the garden of the Metropole hotel ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met for a summit this week seeking to strengthen their partnership. The two leaders also exchanged lavish gifts, as seen in photos.
Until Kim Hak-sun's testimony in 1991, comfort women were silenced post-liberation – in South Korea due the nation's masculinist culture and nationalist shame. [1] [2] Following this, the issue gained momentum, with demands for recognition and compensation emanating from multiple sources, including feminist organisations and legal professionals.
Sung-Yoon Lee: Kim Yo Jong is the first preeminent and powerful female figure to emerge in the brutish, male-dominated political landscape of North Korea, ruled by the Kim family for 75 years ...