A new book reveals that the leader's maternal grandfather was a Japan-based smuggler who had to flee to North Korea to escape ...

There’s not much publicly known about the mother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. She wasn’t part of the ruling Kim family ...

"Ko Yong Hui was an ambitious woman – she wanted her sons to be promoted, and she made enemies in the process," Madden said. "If you were her sister or her brother-in-law, you would feel threatened.

The 90 minute video shows Ko Yong-hui in Osandeok City in the North Hamgyeong Province - the hometown of Kim Jong-il, Daily NK reported. The video included clips of Kim as a child (Image: KCNA VIA ...

In 2016, The Washington Post identified Kim's late mother as Ko Yong Hui. Ko, who was half Japanese, died in 2004, according to the publication. In May 2018, ...

Ko’s gravestone says she was born on June 26, 1952, and died on May 24, 2004, according to a source based in China who visited the site. The epitaph calls her “Mother of Great Songun Korea, Comrade Ko ...

At a cemetery in a hard-to-find corner of South Korea’s Jeju island, there are 13 tombstones bearing the Ko family name – Kim’s relatives through his mother, Ko Yong Hui.

Ko Yong Hui was 21 years old in the photos dated Aug. 1, 1973, at the Imperial Hotel Tokyo, smiling gently while wearing a traditional "chima jeogori" outfit adorned with a badge of her country's ...

Ko Yong-Hui is thought to have been born in Japan, coming to North Korea in the 1960s to work as a dancer. She was said to be the favourite of all Kim Jong-il's consorts, and gave him his second and ...

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 ...

Ko bears a striking resemblance to her sister, Ko Yong Hui, who was one of Kim Jong Il's wives and the mother of Kim Jong Un, the third-generation leader of North Korea.