Where was the wife of the leader of North Korea, Ri Sol-ju? The magazine Vanity Fair reported, at the end of October 2020, that she had notably been absent on October 10, during the large military parade organized for the “Day of the founding of the party”, an event that she had never missed until then. The BBC announced this Wednesday, February 17 that Kim Jong-un and Ri Sol-ju made a joint appearance on Tuesday, documented by the country’s official media, during a concert given for the birthday of the current leader’s father, Kim Jong he, who ruled the country between 1994 and 2011.
The official journal Rodong Sinmun released photos of the couple smiling and applauding the artists performing at the Mansudae Theater of the Arts in Pyongyang. “When the secretary general entered the auditorium of the theater with his wife Ri Sol-Ju to the sound of welcoming music, all the participants cheered them by shouting ‘Hooray’,” reports the official KCNA agency. In the photos that have been published, none of the spectators are wearing a mask.
Avoid Covid-19?
Speculation was rife with Ri Sol-ju. Her absence could have been due to health problems or a pregnancy, some foreign media believed. For the intelligence services of South Korea, Ri Sol-ju would avoid appearances in public due in particular to the Covid-19 and she would have spent time with her three children. One of the children is named Kim Ju-ae, according to former American basketball star Dennis Rodman, a friend of the couple.
Ri Sol-ju would come from a family of the upper class of the regime, her father being a teacher, and her mother an obstetrician. She is said to be 31 and was a singer in the Unhasu Orchestra. Kim Jong-un officially gave the title of “first lady” to Ri Sol-ju in 2018, a title that had not been used by the regime for forty years.
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