page_title: Kim Kyong-hui
section_title: Early life and education
hierarchical_section_title: Kim Kyong-hui / Early life and education
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context_page_description: Kim Kyong-hui is the aunt of current North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un. She is the daughter of the founding North Korean leader Kim Il-sung and the sister of the late leader Kim Jong-il. She currently serves as Secretary for Organization of the Workers' Party of Korea. An important member of Kim Jong-il's inner circle of trusted friends and advisors, she was director of the WPK Light Industry Department from 1988 to 2012. She was married to Jang Sung-taek, who was executed in December 2013 in Pyongyang, after being charged with treason and corruption.
context_section_description: Kim Kyong-hui was born in Pyongyang on 30 May 1946 to Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-suk. Her mother died when she was four. After her father remarried, she was raised by various surrogates away from the family.
  After a brief period spent in Jilin Province, China due to the Korean War, she returned to Pyongyang with her brother, Kim Jong-il. She entered Kim Il-sung University in 1963, studying political economy, where she met her future husband, Jang Sung-taek. She and Jang continued dating  after he relocated to Wonsan, allegedly because the Kim family opposed their relationship. The two eventually married in 1972. She attended the Kim Il-sung Higher Party School in 1966, and went to study at Moscow State University in 1968.
caption: An idealized portrait of Kim Kyong-hui with her mother Kim Jong-suk, father Kim Il-sung and brother Kim Jong-il
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