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While some experts had suspected that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un s birthday would be different this year, he turned 40 on Monday without any public celebration or recognition.
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North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has threatened Seoul with fiery destruction, but as a remote graveyard on a resort island shows, he has closer links to the South than he might like to admit.
At a cemetery in a hard-to-find corner of South Korea’s Jeju island, there are 13 tombstones bearing the Ko family name Kim’s relatives through his mother, Ko Yong-hui.
Jong-un is the third member of the Kim family to rule North Korea, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather what official hagiography calls the “Paektu bloodline.”
But the Jeju graves tell a wider story.
Kim’s mother was
JEJU, South Korea: North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un has threatened Seoul with fiery destruction, but as a remote graveyard on a resort island shows, he has closer links to the South than he might like to admit. At a cemetery in a hard-to-find corner of South Korea’s Jeju island, there are 13 tombstones bearing the Ko family name Kim’s relatives through his mother, Ko Yong