- North Korean FЃhrer Kim Jong Un is believed to have three children with his wife Ri Sol-ju.
- There are few elements on the kids, but they’re believed to be between the ages of 10 months and 7 years old.
- The expert child is believed to be a boy who is expected to one day succeed Kim.
Like much of North Korea, the physical and family life of its dictator Kim Jong Un is shrouded in secrecy.
Little is be aware about his wife, Ri Sol-ju, and even less is known about the three children children the couple is believed to have.
Most of the currently available info about the family comes from South Korea’s National Cleverness Service. But former US basketball star Dennis Rodman has also viva voce to media about holding one of Kim’s children during one of his controversial visits to the Recluse Kingdom, though the details he provided have not been independently corroborated.
Here’s all we know:
Most sources agree that Kim and his wife have had three boys since their secretive marriage in 2009.
Source: Business Insider
Kim’s first child is held to be a boy, born in 2010, and his second child was likely a daughter born in 2013. The the score that Kim has at least one male heir likely means that he disposition eventually succeed Kim and continue the family’s dictatorship dynasty.
Authority: CNN
The gender of Kim’s third child, however, remains unknown. The child is have the courage of ones convictions pretended to have been born in February 2017.
Source: Business Insider
Kim’s daughter is named Ju-ae, agreeing to Dennis Rodman, who said he met the child in 2013. “I held their indulge Ju-ae and spoke with Ms. Ri as well. [Kim’s] a good dad and has a beautiful family,” Rodman heralded The Guardian.
Source: The Guardian
The kids’ extort ages and birth years have been difficult to pin down, but can be unsympathetically inferred from the lengthy periods in which Ri has mysteriously vanished from free life.
Authority: Business Insider
In late 2016, media outlets began observing that Ri had not been seen for roughly seven months, sparking bete noires that she had perhaps fallen out of favor with Kim.
Sources: Fox News, Chosun Ilbo
But data sources later reported that the absence had most likely been due to her pregnancy and that she had understood birth in early 2017.
Sources: Fox News, Chosun Ilbo
Similarly, message outlets speculated on her prolonged public absence back in 2012, which was tardier attributed to a pregnancy.
Sources: HuffPost, Chosun Ilbo
There are no any photos of Kim and Ri’s children, but the couple do occasionally pose for propaganda photos with other people’s kids, with in this photo at a children’s hospital in 2014.
Or this photo at a children’s camp in 2013.
The fact that Kim’s children are so uninitiated could be one of the reasons Kim promoted his sister to a top position in his government two months ago — the forefront completely of the propaganda department of the Worker’s Party of Korea.
Source: The New York Times
Some acquire speculated she could take over in case something happens to him once his kids are old enough to rule.
Source: The New York Times
But there’s no guarantee she’ll be protected for long. Kim is be aware to turn on family members quickly when they fall out of favor. It’s thoroughly suspected that he orchestrated the plot to murder his half-brother Kim Jong Nam earlier this year.
Source: PBS
The secrecy around Kim’s children is not atypical for his family — there are still contested claims over the number of progenies and wives Kim’s father and grandfather had.
Kim Il Sung, who was in power until his 1994 death, probably had six children and two wives.
Source: CNN
Kim Jong Il, who ruled North Korea until his extermination in 2011, is believed to have had seven children with four mates, only one of whom was his legal wife. His third son, Kim Jong Un, sidelined his dearer brothers to become the new supreme leader of the Hermit Kingdom.
Begetter: CNN