SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s state-run news media announced on Wednesday that its young leader Kim Jong-un had married, and identified his wife as Ri Sol-ju.
The North’s Central TV showed Mr. Kim visiting an amusement park in the capital, Pyongyang, with a young stylish woman, and identified her as “Comrade Ri Sol-ju, wife of Marshal Kim Jong-un,” South Korean officials said. A North Korean state-run radio station also identified the woman as Mr. Kim’s wife.
In recent weeks, North Korean media has shown the same woman accompanying Mr. Kim to several state functions, triggering speculation over who she was. The couple attended a July 6 concert that featured Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters. They later visited a kindergarten together.
The North Korean television report did not say when the couple was married.
Mr. Kim, still believed to be in his late 20s, took over top leadership in North Korea after his father, Kim Jong-il, died in December.
He has recently begun projecting himself as a young leader self-confident enough to attempt a different ruling style from that of his dour and reclusive father. North Korean television showed Mr. Kim raising a thumb at a girl group singing the theme song of the iconic American movie “Rocky” during the same concert that featured Mickey Mouse.
By showing up with his wife in public, Mr. Kim distinguished himself from his father. During Kim Jong-il’s rule, most ordinary North Koreans had never seen their first lady on television. Defectors from the North said that most North Koreans did not know who their first lady was when Mr. Kim was in power.
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