Ri Hye-Kyong (2024)

FAQs

What languages can Kim Jong Un speak? ›

Kim Il Sung married twice and had six children. He met his first wife, Kim Jong Suk, in 1936, marrying her in 1940. She bore sons Kim Jong Il (born 1941 or 1942) and Kim Man Il (born 1944), and daughter Kim Kyong Hui (born 1946) before dying while bearing a stillborn daughter in 1949.

South Korea's main spy agency, the National Intelligence Service, said Thursday that it sees Kim Ju Ae as her father's likely successor, citing a comprehensive analysis of her public activities and the state protocols provided to her.

Kim Ju-ae (Korean: 김주애; born c. 2012–2013) is the daughter of North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un and his wife Ri Sol Ju.

Telephone. North Korea has an adequate telephone system, with 1.18 million fixed lines available in 2008. However, most phones are only installed for senior government officials. Someone wanting a phone installed must fill out a form indicating their rank, why they want a phone, and how they will pay for it.

Amnesty International considers North Korea to have no contemporary parallel with respect to violations of liberty. The citizens have no right to free speech, with only media providers operated by the government being legal.

Numerous testimonies of North Korean defectors confirm the practice of kin punishment (연좌제, yeonjwaje literally "association system") in North Korea, under which three to eight generations of a political offender's family can be summarily imprisoned or executed.

NORTH KOREA - AVOID ALL TRAVEL

Avoid all travel to North Korea due to the uncertain security situation caused by its nuclear weapons development program and highly repressive regime.

Who is the only president to go to North Korea? ›

On June 30, 2019, President Trump met with Kim along with Moon Jae-in at the DMZ and briefly crossed the border line into the North Korean side of the DMZ, making him the first sitting U.S. president to enter North Korea; former US Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton had previously visited North Korea after they ...

Living in the shadows

China considers North Korean refugees to be economic migrants, and forcibly deports them back to North Korea – where, as alleged defectors, they face imprisonment, possible torture or worse, activists say.

In 2021, for example, five high school students from South Pyongan Province were secretly executed for sexually assaulting a teacher, according to defector testimony in the report.

Marriage in North Korea

Marriage is allowed at age 18 (for boys) and 17 (for girls). Unlike in South Korea, there are no legal provisions regulating or banning marriage between persons in cases of consanguinity or other types of familial relations. Divorce is allowed, subject to administrative approval.

Promoting population growth

According to one Korean American scholar who visited North Korea in the early 1980s, the country has no birth control policies; parents are encouraged to have as many as six children.

Korean is the official language of both South Korea (Republic of Korea) and North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea).

Korean has its own grammar system, vocabulary and alphabet: Hangul script. South Korea has one official language: Korean, although Japanese, English and Mandarin are widely spoken and understood.

Ri Sol-ju (Korean: 리설주; born; 28 September 1989) is a former North Korean singer and cheerleader and the current first lady of North Korea as the wife of North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un.

In the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea) there are 20 million speakers and in the Republic of Korea (ROK, or South Korea) there are 42 million speakers. Korean is also spoken by almost 2 million people in China, mainly in provinces bordering North Korea.