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# Kim Jong Suk 김정숙 

dead Died aged 31 

Kim Jong-suk was a North Korean revolutionary, anti-Japanese guerrilla, Communist activist, the first wife of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung, the mother of former leader Kim Jong Il and grandmother of current leader Kim Jong Un. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%5FJong-suk)

Born

1917-12-24, Hoeryong

Died

1949-09-22, Pyongyang, North Korea (disease)

Height

Unknown 

Weight

Unknown 

Status as of

1949-09-22[source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%5FJong-suk)

Also known as

Heroine of the Anti-Japanese War, Mother of Kim Jong Il

## Family 

- spouse [Kim Il Sung](https://savenorthkorea.org/people/kim-il-sung) Husband, married in Soviet Far East
- child [Kim Jong Il](https://savenorthkorea.org/people/kim-jong-il) Eldest son, born in Soviet camp near Khabarovsk
- KM child [Kim Man Il](https://savenorthkorea.org/people/kim-man-il) Second son, drowned in 1947
- child [Kim Kyong Hui](https://savenorthkorea.org/people/kim-kyong-hui) Daughter, married Jang Song Thaek

Machine-readable: [/api/people/kim-jong-suk](https://savenorthkorea.org/api/people/kim-jong-suk) · [Wikidata Q463949](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q463949) · Photo: [Unknown authorUnknown author / Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kim%5FJeong%5FSuk%5F2.jpg) (Public domain)