1. Hyon Song-wol is a North Korean singer, band leader, and politician.
14 Facts About Hyon Song-wol
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Hyon Song-wol is the leader of the Moranbong Band and of the Samjiyon Orchestra.
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Hyon Song-wol was formerly a featured vocalist for the Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble in the early 2000s, a pop group which found fame in North Korea in the late 1980s and 1990s.
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Hyon Song-wol has been a member in the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea since 2017.
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Hyon Song-wol's biggest hit was the song "Excellent Horse-like Lady", a 1999 song extolling the virtues of a Stakhanovite textile factory worker.
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Hyon Song-wol disappeared from public view in 2006 when, according to reports in the Japanese media, she married a North Korean army officer with whom she had a child.
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Hyon Song-wol was reported to have known Kim Jong Un, the youngest son of former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, since they were both teenagers.
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On 16 November 2023, The Korea Times published an article in which Choe Su-yong, a former official at the National Intelligence Service, alleges that Hyon Song-wol is the mother of Kim Jong Un's eldest child.
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On 29 August 2013, South Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo reported that Hyon Song-wol had been executed by firing squad on the orders of Kim Jong Un along with eleven other performers, including violinist Mun Kyong-jin, both of whom had allegedly made illegal pornographic videos.
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On 16 May 2014, Hyon Song-wol appeared on North Korean television participating in the National Convention of Artists.
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Hyon Song-wol is the leader of the Moranbong Band and of the Samjiyon Orchestra.
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In December 2015, Hyon Song-wol travelled to Beijing to perform with the Moranbong Band in a series of private concerts.
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Hyon Song-wol participated in talks with South Korea to prepare for North Korea's participation in the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
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Hyon Song-wol was re-elected to the Central Committee at the 8th Congress of the WPK.