Ko Yong-hi

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Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl 고영희
Hancha 高 英 姬
Revised
Romanization 		Go Yeong-hui
McCune-
Reischauer 		Ko Yŏnghŭi

Ko Yong-hi (born June 16, 1953 in Osaka , Japan , † August 13, 2004 in Paris , France ) was the third wife of the North Korean ruler Kim Jong-il .

biography

Born in Japan to a Korean family from Jejudo , she moved to North Korea in the 1960s . In the early 1970s she became a dancer in North Korea's most important dance group, Pyongyang Mansudae Art . In 1975 Ko Yong-hi met the future dictator Kim Jong-il, with whom she had two sons Kim Jong-chol and Kim Jong-un and daughter Kim Yo-jong . Her origin was veiled by the state and she had to slightly change the spelling of her first name (originally 고용희 ). She was called the "respected mother". State propaganda created a personality cult in the late 1990sto increase the legitimacy of their children on claims to power. After Kim Jong-il's death in 2011 and the successor to Kim Jong-un, the personality cult was intensified, similar to that of Kim Jong-suk , and she now also became the "mother of the great Sŏn'gun - Chosŏn " ( 위대한 선군 조선 의 어머님 ) called.

In August 2004 Ko Yong-hi died of breast cancer while she was in Paris for treatment for her advanced cancer .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b NK Starts to Address Kim Jong Eun's Mom Dilemma . The Wall Street Journal ( Korea Realtime ) of June 11, 2012.
  2. ↑ Apichai W. Shipper (2010): Nationalisms of and Against Zainichi Koreans in Japan . Page 73 (PDF file; 173 kB). In: Asian Politics & Policy Volume 2, Number 1.
  3. Jump up ↑ Rise in North Korea's Hierarchy: The Dictator's Mysterious Sister . Spiegel Online, November 27, 2014, accessed on the same day
  4. ↑ “김정은 의 어머니 이름 은 고영희 아닌 '고용희' 확인” . Korea Daily, August 8, 2013 (Korean).
  5. ↑ a b A Mystery About a Mistress in North Korea . The New York Times, August 27, 2004.
  6. ↑ NORTH KOREA NEWSLETTER NO. 60 (June 25, 2009) . Yonhap News Agency . Retrieved November 6, 2013.
  7. ↑ 김정은 생모 는 '고영희' 아닌 '고용희'? . Munwha Ilbo, August 3, 2012 (Korean).
  8. ↑ Additional Photos of Kim Jong Un's Mother Released ( Memento of the original dated December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . NK Leadership Watch, June 30, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / nkleadershipwatch.wordpress.com
  9. ↑ Kim Jong-un's aunt fled to US . Korea JoongAng Daily, November 5, 2013.
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Ko is the family name here, Yong-hi is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Ko, Yong-hi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ko, Young-hee; 고영희 (Chosŏn'gŭl); Go, Yeong-hui (Revised Romanization); Ko, Yŏnghŭi (McCune-Reischauer); Ko, Yong-hee (alternative transcription); Ko, Yong-hui (alternative transcription)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION North Korean personality, wife of Kim Jong-il
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Osaka , Japan
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 2004
Place of death Paris , France