The family background of Ko Yong-hui, the biological mother of Kim Jong Un, Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of North Korea, has been revealed for the first time. Ko Yong-hui was a Zainichi ...

A smiling Ko Yong Hui, Kim Jong Un's mother, wears a traditional "chima jeogori" outfit and holds a plate full of sushi at the Imperial Hotel Tokyo on Aug. 1, 1973. (Image partially modified.

Ko Yong Hui is seen in this photo taken when she was in Japan in 1973. (Photo courtesy of the source, image partially modified) TOKYO -- Photos of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's mother, Ko Yong Hui ...

The grave of Ko Yong-hui, mother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, lies eight kilometers (4.9 miles) northeast of the Arc of Triumph, in central Pyongyang, not far from the Revolutionary Martyr’s ...

An ancestral burial ground in South Korea has been traced to the North Korean leader's family, with his relatives said to still be living nearbt. By Lee Hyo-won SEOUL – Several tombs belonging to the ...

North Korean state TV mentioned the late mother of new leader Kim Jong-un for the first time since he was publicly designated successor to Kim Jong-il in September 2010. Korea Central TV on Sunday ...

A photo of Lee Maeng-in (李孟仁), the maternal grandmother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was recently revealed on a broadcast. It was provided by Komi Yoji, a former Tokyo Shimbun editorial writer ...

Rare images of the leader of North Korea as a child alongside his mother have been unearthed to mark 60 years since the dynasty's ideological foundations wre laid. On August 25 elaborate celebrations ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s maternal grandfather and great-grandfather have been sharing soil with the Republic of Korea all along, Chosun Ilbo said Tuesday. It’s been discovered that graves of ...

Washington Post journalist Anna Fifield’s newly released biography, The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong-un, claims his reclusive childhood and teenage years helped shape him into ...

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has threatened Seoul with fiery destruction, but as a remote graveyard on a resort island shows, he has closer links to the South than he might like to admit. At a ...