Kim Jong Un's Sister Raised Pregnancy Rumors in South Korea

The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visited South Korea while pregnant with her second child, according to reports in the South Korean press.

Kim Yo Jong herself announced she was expecting, according to unidentified officials quoted in local media during her three-day stay in the country at the beginning of the month as part of a high-level North Korean delegation. According to these sources, 30-year-old Kim Yo Jong avoided certain foods and a pregnancy bump could be seen protruding from her coat.

A spokesperson for the Unification Ministry said the South Korean government knows nothing of the pregnancy. “There is nothing that we’ve known of,” the official told Yonhap news agency. “That’s the South Korean government’s stance.”

The presidential office issued “no comment” in response to reporters’ questions, according to The Korean Herald . One anonymous government source confirmed the pregnancy rumors to Yonhap, but an intelligence official, quoted in the same article, said, “I cannot confirm [them].”

Kim Yo Jong’s first significant public appearance in North Korea was at her brother Kim Jong Un’s side at their father Kim Jong Il’s funeral. She has since been seen with her brother at public events such as concerts or standing in for him at state functions. The recent trip to South Korea earned her unprecedented worldwide media attention, yet little is known for certain about the youngest of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung’s grandchildren.

While Kim Jong Un has reportedly fathered 3 children at least one of whom is a girl, Kim Yo Jong is thought to have had her first pregnancy in 2015, but her child’s gender is not known. Pictures of her wearing what appeared to be a wedding ring that same year sparked speculation that she married Choe Song, the son of her brother’s close aide, Choe Ryong-Hae.

Like her older brothers, Kim Yo Jong lived and studied abroad in Switzerland as a teenager before following in her father’s footsteps, joining the North Korean ruling party’s Propaganda and Agitation Department, performing a role that included curating her brother’s public image—which was carefully crafted to evoke their grandfather—and being one of Kim Jong Un's closest aides. She joined the country’s top decision-making body in October less than two years after becoming a member of the party’s central committee, capping a rapid ascent to power.

 

World Famous American evangelist, Billy Graham, dies at 99

Reverend Billy Graham, the influential Southern preacher who became a spiritual advisor to several US presidents and millions of Americans via their television sets, has died, his family said Wednesday. He was 99 years old.

The one-time backwoods minister who eventually became the world’s foremost Christian evangelist, spread a message of spiritual redemption at tent and stadium revival meetings, in a career that spanned decades.

“Billy Graham is the closest thing to a national pope that we shall ever see,” journalist Garry Wills once wrote in The Washington Post.

Graham was a pioneer of “televangelism” to convert souls to Christianity as television got off the ground in the 1950s.

Born on November 7, 1918, he was raised as one of four children on a dairy farm in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Graham had a spiritual awakening in 1934 that changed the course of his life. He subsequently attended the Florida Bible Institute, now Trinity College of Florida, and was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1939.

In 1950, he founded the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) in Minneapolis, Minnesota and launched a weekly “Hour of Decision” radio program.

Graham and his wife Ruth Bell Graham — the daughter of a missionary surgeon who grew up in China — had five children.

These include Anne Graham Lotz, a Christian author and speaker, and two sons, who like their famous father became ministers.

One son, William Franklin Graham III is now the head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

His wife Ruth, although married for nearly 64 years to the world’s most famous Baptist preacher, remained a lifelong Presbyterian. She died in June 2007 at the age of 87.

Unlike other high-profile evangelists, Graham managed to escape sex and money scandals by keeping a meticulous watch over his staff and finances.

“My greatest fear is that I’ll do something that will bring disrepute on the Gospel of Christ before I go,” Graham said in a 1991 interview.

He suffered from a host of ailments late in life, including Parkinson’s disease and prostate cancer. In 1995, weakened by illness and old age, he turned over operation of his ministry to his eldest son

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