Kim Jong-un Parents: Kim Jong-il, Ko Yong-hui (Father, Mother)

Kim Jong-un is a North Korean who is the leader of the Workers` Party of Korea and the Supreme Leader of North Korea since 2011.

He was born on 8 January 1983, making him the first North Korean leader to have been born after the country’s founding in 1948.

Jong-un is reported to have attended the Liebefield Steinhölzli state school in Köniz, Switzerland under the guise of the son of a North Korea embassy employee. He used the name Un-Pak.

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Kim Jong-un Parents: Kim Jong-il, Ko Yong-hui (Father, Mother)

Kim Jong-il and Ko Yong-hui are Kim Jong-un’s parents.

Kim Jong-il

Kim Jong-il who is the father of Kim Jong-un was the former Supreme Leader of North Korea. He was born on 16 February 1942 in Vyatskoye, Russia.

Jong-il’s father was Kim Il-Sung, who was the founding father and first Supreme Leader of North Korea.

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In October 1980 he was officially designated as his father’s successor. He became the de facto leader of North Korea when his father died of a heart attack in 1994.

Kim Jong-il was married to Ko Yong-hui with whom he had 3 children; Kim Jong-chul, Kim Jong-un, and Kim Yo-jong.

He died on 17 December 2011 in Pyongyang.

Ko Yong-hui

Ko Yong-hui the mother of Kim Jong-un was born on 26 June 1952 in Osaka, Japan. Her Japanese name is Takada Hime.

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She was referred to as “The Mother of Pyongyang” and “The Mother of Great Songun Korea”.

It is thought that Ko and Kim Jong-il first met in 1972. They had three children; Kim Jong-chul, Kim Jong-un, and Kim Yo-jong.

She died on 13 August 2004 (aged 52) in Paris, France.

Source: Kingaziz.com

Source: Kingaziz.com