Ko Yong-hui, the late mother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, is pictured with son Kim Jong-chul and daughter Kim Yo-jong. [BUNGEI SHUNJU] There’s not much publicly known about the mother of North ...

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

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 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 ...

Ko’s sister, the late Ko Yong Hui, was married to former North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. Her nephew is Kim Jong Un, the country’s current leader, ...

She and Kim Jong Un were born to the same mother, Ko Yong Hui. Like most members of the Kim clan, little is definitively known about Kim Yo Jong beyond her official rank.

Ko Yong Suk, Kim Jong Un's aunt who defected to the U.S. in 1998, ... Kim Jong Un, believed to be in his early 30s, and his sister were born to Ko Yong Hui, ...

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 Yong-hui’s Japanese ancestry, her status as a zainichi—an ethnically Korean resident of Japan—and her father’s role with the Japanese Imperial Army puts her firmly at the lowest tier ...