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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 13 February 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 ...
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.
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 Un's influential aunt also joined the couple in attending an art performance in the capital, Pyongyang, celebrating the Lunar New Year holiday, state television reported.
Ri Sol-ju was reportedly born into an elite family -- her father was a professor and her mother a doctor -- but little else is known about her life.
Kim Jong Un's wife has been upgraded from 'comrade' to 'revered first lady,' a move indicating North Korea is trying to present itself as a normal country.
The third supreme leader Kim Jong Un reestablished the position in April 2018 when Ri Sol Ju, whom he married in 2009, [5] [6] [7] was elevated from the title of "comrade" to "Respected First Lady". The promotion occurred ahead of the April 2018 inter-Korean summit , where Ri and South Korean First Lady Kim Jung-sook were in attendance.
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 ...