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Ko Yong-Hui (two fronts on the left), the biological mother of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, when he was a young pose with his friends in Japan. Photo/Yoji Gomi
Published last month, a book called “KO Yong-Hui: Korean Zainichi, who became the mother of Kim Jong-un (KO Yong-Hui: Zainichi Korea, who became the mother of Kim Jong-un) “Written by journalists and writers of Yoji Gomi. This book is based on an interview with relatives Koon-Hui, who still live in Japan.
The book describes in detail how the grandfather from Mrs. Kim Jong -un; To Gyong-Tek, he lived a difficult life as a smuggler and was supposed to escape to North Korea when he was almost arrested for his illegal affair.
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For the North Korean regime, which was based on the hatred of Japan from colonialism in Korea and the superiority of the Kim dynasty, the news that Grandfather Kim was ordinary smuggling may be very harmful. It also damaged the perception of the regime of Zainichi or the Korean of the second generation, who lived in Japan, who moved to North Korea as a spy.
“North Korea has long spread the story that only the Kim family won independence for its people,” Gomi said Gomi This week in AsiaThursday (7/7/2025).
“Nevertheless, she showed that the mother of the Korean (northern) leader was Korean Zanichi – a group that still had discrimination in North Korea, – will damage the prestige and legitimacy of the regime,” he explained.
The Kim clan always supports the purity of the “Mount Pakt Mountain”, which is named on the basis of the cult mountains standing on the North Korean border with China, and, according to the legend, is the location of the partisan camp, where Kim Ir-Sun, the founder of North Korea and grandfather (from his father) Kim Yong Yun, headed the groups in Japanese, which are against Japan. which are against Japanese singing.
