Ko Young-hee
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| Born | c. 16 June 1953 Osaka, Japan |
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| Died | c. 13 August 2004 (aged 54) Paris, France |
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| Spouse | Kim Jong-il | ||||||||||
| Children | Kim Jong-chul Kim Jong-un |
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Ko Young-hee (c. 16 June 1953 – c. 13 August 2004), also known as Ko Yong-hui,[1] was the late North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-il's consort and mother of North Korea's Supreme Commander, Kim Jong-un. Within North Korea she is known as "The Respected Mother who is the Most Faithful and Loyal 'Subject' to the Dear Leader Comrade Supreme Commander".[2][3]
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Ko was born in Ikuno, Osaka, Japan to parents of Korean descent.[4]At the age of 11, her family moved to North Korea in May, 1961. In the early 1970s, she began to work as a dancer for the Mansudae Art Troupe in Pyongyang.
In 1981 Ko gave birth to son Kim Jong-chul, her first child with Kim Jong-il. It was Kim's third child, after son Kim Jong-nam (b. 1971 to Song Hye-rim), and daughter Kim Sul-song (b. 1974 to Kim Young-sook). Kim Jong-il's second child with Ko, present North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un, followed between one to three years later after Jong-chul.
On 27 August 2004, various sources reported that she had died in Paris, probably of breast cancer.[5]
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- ^ "North Korea leader lies in state". BBC. 18 December 2011. Archived from the original on 20 December 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/6450rAlTi.
- ^ Lintner, Bertil (2005) Great leader, dear leader: demystifying North Korea under the Kim Clan Silkworm Books, Chiang Mai, Thailand, page 107, ISBN 974-9575-69-5
- ^ French, Paul (2007) North Korea: the paranoid peninsula — a modern history (2nd edition) Zed Books, London, page 267, ISBN 978-1-84277-905-7
- ^ Kokita, Kiyohito (1 December 2010). "Osaka black mark in Kim's life?". Asahi Shimbun. http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201011300331.html. Retrieved 3 December 2010.; see Kokita Kiyohito, Tessa Morris-Suzuki and Mark Selden, Ko Tae Mun, Ko Chung Hee, and the Osaka Family Origins of North Korean Successor Kim Jong Un, The Asia-Pacific Journal Vol 9, Issue 1 No 2, January 3, 2011.
- ^ Hart, Joyce (2007) Kim Jong II: Leader of North Korea Rosen Publishing Group, New York, page 60, ISBN 978-1-4042-1901-4
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