Kim Jong-un’s wife spotted in public 7 months after disappearing(Photos)

After disappearing for more than seven months North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has been seen side by side with his wife Ri Sol Ju.
The couple appeared together at an air combat training competition today according to local media.



Watching the competition the controversial leader gave advice to contestants and in particular the Korean People’s Air Force and Defense (KPAF) as his wife looked on, according to the Korean Central News Agency.

When the first lady of North Korea first went missing there were rumours about whether she was pregnant or had fallen out of favour with Kim Jong-un and his powerful younger sister.

Ri Sol-Ju, a pretty former singer, first appeared on the scene in July 2012 when she was referred to in public as ‘his wife, Comrade Ri Sol-ju’.

She has appeared in public only intermittently since.

In December 2014 she attended a ceremony with her husband to commemorate the third anniversary of the death of Kim Jong-un’s father, Kim Jong-Il.

Then in April last year, wearing what appeared to be a wedding ring on her left hand, she was pictured clapping next to her smiling husband a football match at Kim Il Sung Stadium.

But until reports today she had not been seen in public since March 28, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.

Previously Toshimitsu Shigemura, a professor at Tokyo’s Waseda University and an expert on North Korea, told the Daily Telegraph: ‘There are several possible reasons, including that she is pregnant or that there is some sort of problem between the two of them.’

A former member of the North’s Unhasu Orchestra, there have been stories before about Ri being pregnant, and even having a child.