- North Koreans danced in the streets of a snow-dusted Pyongyang to mark the centenary birthday anniversary
- Kim Jong-suk, Kim Jong-un’s grandmother and Kim Jong-il’s mother, would have been 100 years old yesterday
- She was a Korean independence activist and Communist politician in the country back in the 1930s and 1940s
- Civilians were seen dancing in front of the iconic Monument to Party Founding and wreaths were laid for her
A gloomy Pyongyang was tranformed into a festival of dance on Christmas Eve to recognise the 100-year anniversary of Kim Jong-un’s grandmother’s birth.
The North Korean capital was dusted with snow as the temperature plummeted below freezing when thousands of people lined the streets to dance in front of the Monument to Party Founding yesterday.
Kim Jung-suk, who was Kim Il-sung’s first wife and the mother of Kim Jong-il, was a Korean independence activist and Communist politician in the 1930s and 40s.
Controversy and mystery surrounds her death on September 22, 1949, with some reports suggesting she died at the age of 31 whilst giving birth to a stillborn baby and others stating she was shot and left to bleed out.
She is known in North Korea as ‘The Heroine of the Anti-Japanese Revolution’ and her portrait is regularly churned out for the country’s propaganda.
Waving the country’s red, blue and white flag and with women wearing colourful dresses under their thick coats, she was honoured in front of the the iconic worker’s party sculpture which can be seen eerily towering above them in an eerie set of photographs.
The 50m-high hammer, sickle and calligraphy brush was erected on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Worker’s Party of Korea, and reads: ‘The organizers of the victory of the Korean people and the leader of the Workers Party of Korea.’
Wreaths were then laid at the statue of Kim Jong-suk in the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery on the occasion of her centenary birth anniversary on Mount Taesong.
Celebratory dance festival takes place for the 100 years birth anniversary of Kim Jong-suk and former leader Kim Jong-il’s 26 years of anniversary of inauguration as supreme commander of the Korean People’s Army. Waving the country’s red, blue and white flag and with women wearing colourful dresses under their thick coats, she was honoured in front of the the iconic worker’s party sculpture which can be seen eerily towering above them in an eerie set of photographs
A gloomy Pyongyang was tranformed into a festival of dance on Christmas Eve to recognise the 100-year anniversary of Kim Jong-un’s grandmother’s birth. The North Korean capital was dusted with snow as the temperature plummeted below freezing when thousands of people lined the streets to dance in front of the Monument to Party Founding yesterday
North Koreans partner up and dance in the streets for one of their most revered figures. Kim Jung-suk, who was Kim Il-sung’s first wife and the mother of Kim Jong-il, was a Korean independence activist and Communist politician in the 1930s and 40s
Wreaths are placed at the statue of Kim Jong-suk in the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery on the occasion of her centenary birth anniversary on Mount Taesong. Controversy and mystery surrounds her death on September 22, 1949, with some reports suggesting she died at the age of 31 whilst giving birth to a stillborn baby and others stating she was shot and left to bleed out
Senior officials follow – all men – follow behind a giant wreath which is laid at the side of Kim Jong-suk’s statue in Pyongyang
The statue of Kim Jong-suk. She is known in North Korea as ‘The Heroine of the Anti-Japanese Revolution’ and her portrait is regularly churned out for the country’s propaganda