Japan’s ‘blood relationship’ with Kim Jong Un

Korea has a bloody bitter history with Japan. Although the Korean Peninsula is now divided into northern and southern parts, it remained undivided before World War II. The Korean Peninsula was a Japanese colony for 35 years before the end of World War II. During the Japanese colonization in the first half of the last century, the Korean Peninsula had to endure a lot of oppression by the Japanese.   

At the beginning of the last century, imperialist Japan became embroiled in various wars to develop its dominance over the world. They defeated China and Russia militarily during their aggressive stance in Asia and occupied the entire Korean Peninsula. The Japanese occupied the Korean Peninsula until its formal occupation in 1910 and its surrender in WoAt that time Koreans had to be known as Japanese. Japanese names had to be used at school or at work. After the outbreak of World War II, Korean men were forced to work in Japanese factories and mines. The war had to be fought on behalf of the imperialist Japanese army. Women were forced to work as slaves for Japanese soldiers, known as ‘Comfort Women.’

When the Japanese were defeated in World War II, the two Koreas split into independent states. However, the Koreans did not forget the past glory of the Japanese. Especially North Korea. From the beginning, North Korea has portrayed its leaders as anti-imperialist revolutionaries. Anti-Japanese hatred is helping to keep people in check. North Korea’s state-controlled media still portrays the Japanese as reactionary. They are often threatened with an atomic bomb.

But what North Korea’s state propaganda machine avoids is that Japan has blood ties to current leader Kim Jong Un. His mother was born in Japan. In the 1970s, her father, Kim Jong Il, married Young Hui. They hate Japan so much. But Kim Jong Un’s mother is Japanese! Today we will learn about his mother’s family in this article.

1929 The Korean Peninsula was then occupied by Japan. Kim Kyun Tayek, a 26-year-old man from Jeju Island, South Korea, moved to Osaka, Japan. He was the son of a middleman. At that time, the number of the Korean community in Osaka was increasing. He started living in the Ikuno region of central Osaka. The Koreans had a good time there too. There he started working in a factory called Hirota Saihjo Sewing Plant. The business of making shirts was stopped here, and the business of making military uniforms and tents was started.

After World War II, when Japan rapidly emerged as a modern and democratic country, Ko and his wife formed their family. At first, they had a son. Then on June 6, 1952, they had a daughter named Young Hui.

Young Hui then began using the Japanese name Haim Takada at Osaka Government Primary School. He loved to sing. He sang the chorus with the choir in the church every Sunday. Four years later she had a sister, Young-Suk.

After the war, their father got into trouble with the police. Rumors spread in his name that he was illegally smuggling boats with Osaka to Jeju Island. He was ordered to be deported. At the same time, there are allegations of feminist scandals in her name. He is accused of having many wives and children in different places. He decided to leave Japan to escape the danger.

In the late 1950’s, North Korea again urged ethnic Koreans to move from Japan to North Korea. Almost all Koreans in Japan were from South Korea. The Japanese government also supports the move, reducing the number of Koreans in their country.

Information about the country of North Korea is presented to potential immigrants as a socialist paradise on earth. The country said it would provide free accommodation, education and medical care. There will also be job security. Here, the Koreans do not have to suffer any kind of religious orthodoxy they had to face in Japan.

At that time, North Korea’s economy was also better than South Korea’s. Because North Korea was rich in natural mineral resources, on the other hand, the leader of South Korea was Singman Ri, who was a terrible dictator. He was considered a puppet of the United States.

On the other hand, North Korea was led by Kim Jong Un’s grandfather, Kim Il Sung. Between 1959-65, more than 93,000 Koreans fled Japan to North Korea, trapped by his propaganda.

The Kim family also floated in the current. When Young Hui was ten years old, they sailed 560 miles to North Korea. They landed in the port city of Changjin on the east coast. It was the farthest place from the island of Jeju, their ancestral home on the Korean Peninsula.

For most Koreans, the experience of returning to their “motherland” from a rapidly improving country after the war is highly frustrating. Some commit suicide when they arrive in North Korea when they realize they have been deceived.    

But the lives of the returnees brought to Pyongyang were different. The North Korean magazine Korean Pictorial published a feature about the Ko family in the December 1972 issue. It was titled “My Happy Family.”

“When he went to Japan in 1929, he had to struggle a lot,” says Koe Keon Tayek. There is a lot of discrimination. His plight came to an end when he arrived in North Korea. The magazine quoted him as saying, ” There is no one happier now than my family. The feature also says that their eldest daughter Ko Young Hui has joined the North Korean traditional music group Manshude. He also received a medal from Kim Il Sung”.

The following year, Kim Young Hui returned to Japan. He and 35 other human dancers went on a two-month-long tour to dance. She dances there in Tokyo, Nagoya, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, and Osaka’s birthplace.

But at that time, the real identity of Koe was hidden. During a visit to Japan, the North Korean newspaper Chosun Shinbo introduced him as Ryu Il Sak. There he was called the lead dancer of a song and dance performance.

In North Korea, beautiful dancers from the Manshude dance troupe are often invited to Kim Il Sung’s son Kim Jong Il’s various wine parties. There they had to perform dances for Kim Jong Il and his companions.

Kim Jong Il was in love with Young Hui. He used to ask Ko Young Hui to sit next to him at various parties. He often went to the rehearsal room to watch the choir dance practice. Coke was often seen missing in practice. Rumors then spread among other dancers that Kim had started living with Kim Jong Il or that she had given birth to Kim Jong Il’s baby.

Kim Young Hui married Kim Jong Il. But the news of their marriage has not been officially announced. Because of their relationship, the status of Ko Yong Hui’s family in North Korea quickly increased. His father was the manager of a factory in Mangyeongdai Souvenir, Pyongyang. He lived in the capital until his death in 1999 at the age of eight.

With Kim Jong Il, Kim Young Hee gave birth to three children – Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong Chol, and Kim Yoo Jung. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997. He continued to receive medical treatment in France. But day by day, his condition continues to get worse. He died in Paris in 2004.

He was very serious about keeping the children informed about their studies. He often worked with Kim Jong Il until late at night. He also expressed his views on various issues. Once a bodyguard got drunk and pointed a gun at Kim Jong Il. Then he came in the middle of them and stood as a shield. He may have been born in Japan, but he has shown genuine patriotism and loyalty to North Korea. Not just North Korea, but her powerful husband.