Kim Kyong-hui
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General Kim Kyong-hui 김경희 |
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| Born |
30 May 1946 Pyongyang, North Korea |
| Alma mater |
Kim Il-sung University Moscow State University |
| Occupation | Secretary for Organization of the Workers' Party of Korea; Korean People's Army general |
| Political party | Workers' Party of Korea |
| Spouse(s) | Jang Sung-thaek (m. 1972; d. 2013) |
| Children | Jang Kum-song (1977–2006) |
| Relatives | Kim Jong-un (nephew) |
| Korean name | |
| Chosŏn'gŭl | 김경희 |
| Hancha | 金敬姬 |
| Revised Romanization | Gim Gyeonghui |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kim Kyŏnghŭi |
General Kim Kyong-hui (Hangul: 김경희; Hanja: 金敬姬; born 30 May 1946) is the aunt of current North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un. She is the daughter of the founding North Korean leader Kim Il-sung and the sister of the late leader Kim Jong-il. She currently serves as Secretary for Organization of the Workers' Party of Korea. An important member of Kim Jong-il's inner circle of trusted friends and advisors, she was director of the WPK Light Industry Department from 1988 to 2012. Her husband was Jang Sung-taek, who was executed in December 2013 in Pyongyang, after being charged with treason and corruption. There have been many unconfirmed reports that she is suffering from poor health, has died of illness, or has been killed.
Kim Kyong-hui was born in Pyongyang on 30 May 1946, the youngest child of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-suk. Her birth mother died when she was four. After her father remarried, she was raised by various surrogates away from the family.
After a brief period spent in Jilin Province, China due to the Korean War, she returned to Pyongyang with her brother, Kim Jong-il. She entered Kim Il-sung University in 1963, studying political economy, where she met her future husband. The couple continued dating after he relocated to Wonsan, allegedly because the Kim family opposed their relationship. The two eventually married in 1972. She attended the Kim Il-sung Higher Party School in 1966, and went to study at Moscow State University in 1968.
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