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The mysterious lives of the 3 kids who are believed to be Kim Jong Un’s

  • 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.

Foto: Kim (R) applauds with his better half Ri Sol-Ju (L) during a performance by the Moranbong band in Pyongyang in 2012. provenance KCNA via Reuters

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.

Foto: Kim directors the launch of a Hwasong-12 missile in 2017. source KCNA via REUTERS

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.

Foto: Kim participates in a meeting in Pyongyang on September 4, 2017. authority KCNA via REUTERS

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.

Foto: Kim watches a basketball game with Dennis Rodman at Pyongyang Indoor Hippodrome on January 9, 2014. source REUTERS/KCNA

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.

Foto: Kim and his wife Ri watch a performance by the Moranbong Band at the April 25 Quarter of Culture in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Primary News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang in 2014. source Reuters/KCNA

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.

Foto: Kim stands next to Ri as they pay attention to the 2014 Combat Flight Contest among commanding officers of the Korean People’s Air Jemmy in 2014. source KCNA via Reuters

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.

Foto: Kim Jong Un and Ri Sol Ju in an undated photo. source North Korea’s Korean Chief News Agency/AP

Sources: Fox News, Chosun Ilbo


Similarly, message outlets speculated on her prolonged public absence back in 2012, which was tardier attributed to a pregnancy.

Foto: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and his partner Ri Sol-Ju arrive at an auditorium to enjoy a performance given by the Moranbong League together in 2012. source KCNA via Reuters

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.

Foto: Kim Jong un and his wife Ri Sol Ju amuse oneself with children during a visit to the Taesongsan General Hospital in 2014. informant KCNA via Reuters

Or this photo at a children’s camp in 2013.

Foto: Kim and Ri sit during a stopover to the Pyongyang Myohyangsan Children’s Camp at the foot of Mt. Myohyang in North Phyongan Territory in 2013. source KCNA via Reuters

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.

Foto: Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean bossman Kim Jong Un, attends the opening of the Ryomyong residential area in Pyongyang on April 13, 2017. author Associated Press/Wong Maye-E

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.

Foto: People watch a TV news program showing Kim Yo Jong, North Korean kingpin Kim Jong Un’s younger sister, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea on Nov. 27, 2014. beginning AP

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.

Foto: Kim Jong Nam get there comes at Beijing airport in Beijing, China, in this photo taken by Kyodo February 11, 2007. outset Reuters/KYODO Kyodo

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.

Foto: Kim Jong-Il’s funeral. source Associated Newswomen

Kim Il Sung, who was in power until his 1994 death, probably had six children and two wives.

Foto: Kim Il Blow the whistled visits a fruit farm in North Hwanghae, North Korea in 1979. provenance KCNA via Associated Press

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.

Foto: North Korean commander Kim Jong-il (L) visits the Pyongyang Grand Theater in 2009. source REUTERS/KCNA

Begetter: CNN

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