CCTV News:According to Korean Central News Agency’s report on June 4th, Kim Jong-un, the top leader of North Korea, and his wife Li Xuezhu watched a large-scale group gymnastics and art performance "People’s Country" in Pyongyang on June 3rd.
North Korea has a tradition of organizing large-scale group calisthenics. Arirang, a large-scale group calisthenics that was recorded in Guinness World Records by the number of participants, is one of the representative works of North Korea’s group calisthenics. In 2018, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, North Korea created a large-scale group gymnastics and art performance called "Glorious Motherland", reflecting the achievements made by North Korea in various fields since its founding.
According to Xinhua News Agency, the event on the 3rd was unprecedented. After nightfall, a group of drones flew over the May Day Stadium, forming a blue-red Korean flag pattern and the words "People’s Country" in Korean, which kicked off the performance. During the one-and-a-half-hour performance, tens of thousands of North Korean actors performed gymnastics, dance, vocal music, acrobatics and other forms, showing the historical picture of the Korean revolution and war, political and army building, people’s livelihood and economic development, and foreign exchanges.
As can be seen from a set of pictures published by the official media of North Korea, Li Xuezhu, as the first lady, sat on Kim Jong-un’s right hand side in a dark coat. Kim Jong-un’s position on the left was assigned to Li Wanjian, who just became a member of the DPRK State Council in April. Jin Yuzheng, Kim Jong-un’s sister, is next to Li Xuezhu. This time, Jin Yuzheng’s appearance is slightly different from the past: she changed her previous capable hairstyle, scattered all her hair, put on a hairband, and rolled her sleeves to her elbows to make the whole person look very capable.
Jin Yuzheng’s usual hairstyle when he appears in public.
On July 26th, 2012, Korean Central News Agency’s official website reported that Kim Jong-un had visited Lingluo People’s Amusement Park and mentioned his wife’s name twice. official website translated his wife’s Chinese name into "Li Xuezhu". On the same day, Korean Central News Agency website also published 39 photos of Kim Jong-un inspecting the amusement park, including many photos of Kim Jong-un and his wife inspecting together, and an intimate photo of Li Xuezhu holding Kim Jong-un’s arm.
On July 25th, 2012, Li Xuezhu attended the completion ceremony of Lingluo People’s Amusement Park in Pyongyang.
As one of Kim Jong-un’s most trusted people, Jin Yuzheng has been accompanying Kim Jong-un in various important occasions at home and abroad. On March 9, 2014, Jin Yuzheng made her first "official appearance" in a report on North Korean national television. At that time, Kim Jong-un was elected as the representative of Baitoushan Constituency No.111 with 100% support rate. Jin Yuzheng, known as "Comrade", appeared for the first time in the report, and a "close-up" of her voting was shown. After that, Jin Yuzheng can always be seen in Kim Jong-un’s activities reported by North Korea’s official media. From watching performances, to inspecting factories and museums, to inspecting military training activities, Jin Yuzheng’s name can always be found in the list of accompanying persons.
Jin Yuzheng participated in the first "special gold meeting"
According to the relevant news released by the media, although Li Xuezhu and Jin Yuzheng are both well-known women in North Korea, and both of them are frequently seen in newspapers and periodicals in North Korea, it is not common for them to be reported at the same time in one activity because of their different roles.