The Wife of North korea dictator speaks out! (Well, i bet it was her husband who made the review)

Being Wooed by Kim Jong-il: a Leader’s Wife Writes


“Jan. 28, 1973 was an extremely cold day. The clock pointed to 11 p.m., so I was about to go to bed when there was a knock at the door. I thought it might be my father, but when I opened the door, I couldn’t be anything but surprised: someone had come to tell me that our Dear General was out there standing in a snowstorm, waiting for me...” A memoir about what it is like to love a man who never came in from the cold, purportedly written by Kim Jong-il’s third wife Ko Young-hee, has hit the bookshelves of Pyongyang. Born in 1953 as the first daughter of Ko Tae-moon, a native of Jeju Island living in Japan, Ko came to North Korea in 1961 and joined the Mansudae Art Troupe. There, she caught the eye of the then North Korean heir apparent and subsequently lived with him. In 2004, Ko went to France for cancer treatment and died. It is widely speculated that one of the two sons born to the couple, Jong-chul or Jong-woon, will succeed their father. The book was issued on July 20, immediately after the reclusive country’s missile test. It has Ko and family returning aboard the 58th repatriation ship to the North in May 1961. The project to repatriate North Koreans in Japan, who were assured North Korea was a paradise on Earth, started in 1959 and ended only in 1987, spanning some 187 boat trips and ferrying 93,340 people to a mostly grim future.ko meets Kim in Oct. 1971, when she is 18 years old. At the time, Kim is attending a dinner meeting. “He himself called me over to the seat next to him,” she records breathlessly. One Japanese expert on North Korean affairs comments dryly, “Since the memoir idolizes Ko Young-hee’s familial line, it may mean that a decision on the succession has been reached in some form.”