Kim Jong Eun is married, North Korea confirms [View all]

Source: Washington Post

TOKYO — North Korean state media on Wednesday revealed that leader Kim Jong Eun is married, a jarring announcement in a country that has long kept its first ladies nearly invisible.

The announcement ends weeks of speculation about the identity of a slender woman — with a stylish bob of hair — who’d accompanied Kim in several recent public appearances.

State media identified the woman as Kim’s wife, “Comrade Ri Sol Ju.” But there was no mention of Ri’s age or of how long the couple has been married.

The first lady’s emergence ends a four-decade period where significant others of the ruling Kim family were kept almost entirely behind the scenes. The North’s willingness to give Ri a high profile adds to mounting evidence that Kim, appointed just seven months ago as North Korea’s leader, is trying to create a more personable image than that of his dour, reclusive father.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/kim-jong-eun-is-married-north-korea-confirms/2012/07/25/gJQARLr08W_story.html

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Please join me in congratulating the new bride and groom as they embark on their new life together!

Like all newly-married couples they're picking out dinnerware, selecting mass mind control techniques they wish to employ against their starving citizens and looking toward the future- their 50th Anniversary Crowning as King & Queen of Peace in a ceremony presided over by US congressmen!



PB