Kim Jong-un's mother, Ko Yong-hee, was born in Osaka and is a second-generation Japanese resident.His father was a Korean resident in Japan, and went to North Korea with his family on a post-war repat

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The mother of North Korea's top official is a Korean resident in Japan

Kim Jong-un's mother, Go Yong-hee, is a second-generation Korean living in Japan and was born in Osaka, Japan. She was born in Tsuruhashi, near Ikuno Korea Town. She is said to have returned to North Korea with her parents around 1962. Ko Yong Hee's father was a Korean resident in Japan who was born in Jeju and moved to Osaka in 1929, where he worked as an executive at the Hirota Military Uniform Factory in Osaka, which was secretly designated by the Ministry of War. During the repatriation project led by North Korea and the Korean Federation of Korean Federations, they took the 99th repatriation route to North Hamgyong with three children, including Go Yong Hui and her mother, who is one of her father's wives. It took root in Domei.

She graduated from the dance department of Pyongyang College of Music and Dance (currently Kim Won-gyun University of Music), and in 1971 she became a dancer with the Mansu University Art Troupe, changing her name to Go Yong-hee. In 1972 she received the title of ``Public Actor''. In 1973, the Mansuda Art Troupe completed a successful performance in Japan, and her Japanese-born girlfriend, a hired princess, attracted attention and became famous. Princess Go Yong joins her group, and she becomes Kim Jong Il's third mistress. Kim Jong Il called her ``Ayumi'' in Japanese style. According to North Korea's official records, she is a former member of the North Jeju Army on Jeju Island.

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1. Since the 2000s, she has been treated for breast cancer, and in 2003 her cancer recurred, making it virtually incurable.
2. In September 2003, he suffered a severe head injury in a traffic accident, and his health further deteriorated.Following a secret visit by French medical staff to North Korea that year, he was admitted to a hospital in Paris in 2004. It was revealed that he had undergone tumor- and brain-related treatment.
3. In May 2002, it was discovered that Kim Jong-nam, who was appointed as the Minister of National Security in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, entered Japan on a fake passport. He was deported and dismissed from his position as head of the National Security Agency. At this time, there is a theory that some sources spread information that Princess Gaoyong had visited Japan with a fake passport in order to prevent the selection of her legitimate son's successor.
4. There are rumors that Princess Gao Yong died of a heart attack and cancer while undergoing treatment in Paris, France on August 13, 2004, but she had already passed away three months earlier, in May. may have died. Her gravestone, which has since been made public, confirms that she died on May 24, 2004.