Video: "Pretty" for a dictator: What is known about Kim Jong-un's wife
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
This year will go down in the history of North Korea: 22 athletes went to the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. A team of cheerleaders arrived to support them, which the network has already called the "Army of Beauty". It is noteworthy that all members of the support group undergo a rigorous selection: they must meet beauty standards and have a respectable family. And even dictator Kim Jong-un's wife is a cheerleader.
Kim Jong-un is a big sports fan. He is interested in football, basketball and skiing. That is why, under his leadership, the entire infrastructure began to develop and, of course, the training of cheerleaders began. Is it any wonder that the selected beauties sing and dance so synchronously that they conquered the whole world? Residents of different countries dream of watching their performance, because it seems just fantastic.
Lee Jung Hoon in an interview with The Straits Times: “They look the way Korean women looked many years ago. The army of cheerleaders numbers about two hundred 20-year-old girls in red uniforms. Watching them is like watching dominoes fall. A totally hypnotic effect."
The story of Kim Jong-un's acquaintance with cheerleader Lee Seol Joo is carefully hidden. In 2012, the media announced information that Kim would come to the next event with his wife. Despite the fact that at least nominally, Li became the first person of the state, no information about her was disclosed.
According to South Korean intelligence, the wedding took place in 2009. True, for three years, information about this event in North Korea was hushed up. Lee's appearance next to Kim was commented on in different ways: in some media she was called his sister, in others - a pop singer.
As you can see, the truth was somewhere nearby. Lee was on the cheerleader team. The girls who are selected for this team, in fact, get a ticket to a better life. They have access to many benefits that ordinary people have not even heard of.
In general, the situation in the country is dire: due to socio-economic isolation, the government can only rely on the export of coal and textiles. There are still a large number of hungry people in the country, and any benefits are distributed only among the members of the party elite.
From scraps of information about Lee, it is known that she is 25-29 years old, she successfully graduated from the university and defended her Ph. D. thesis. Her father is a professor. All this information was published in the eastern press at different times, but it should be borne in mind that such publications are often speculative.
Lee Seol Joo's name could very likely be a pseudonym. Sometimes the first lady of North Korea disappears from the media for months, and sometimes she suddenly appears in an amusement park, then at a funeral ceremony.
Most likely, she has two or three children born in a marriage to a dictator.
First ladies in authoritarian states often arouse sympathy, although their fate is unenviable. They are the ones who have to deal with the tough temper of the dictators day after day.
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