SunstarTV Bureau: After being disappear for almost a year, Kim Jong Un’s wife Ri Sol Ju, appeared for the first time on Wednesday joining at a concert on one of the country’s biggest holidays with her husband.
The official report has been confirmed by the newspaper Rodong Sinmun, the ruling worker’s party, who has released photos of the pair at the event.
Reportedly, the event has marked the birthday of late father of Kim Jong Un.
Accordingly, Ri had disappeared since January last year an event for the Lunar New Year holiday, stoking speculation over health and potential pregnancy.
South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) told lawmakers on Tuesday that Ri appeared to have refrained from outside activities to head off coronavirus infections but was “playing well with their kids.”
Ri and Kim smiled as they watched the concert at Mansudae Art Theatre in the capital of Pyongyang. Unlike several previous events, nobody in the photographs published by Rodong Sinmun were wearing masks or maintaining social distancing measures.
The newspaper also reported that Kim visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, which houses the embalmed bodies of his father and grandfather, to lay wreaths for the anniversary, called the Day of the Shining Star.