The Korean summit's big mystery -- where is Kim's wife?

0 Comments | AFP, October, 2007

SEOUL (AFP) — Paging Mrs. Kim Jong-Il. For all the light that this week's landmark inter-Korean summit may shed on Pyongyang and Kim's secretive regime, one enduring mystery remains: where is the wife of the Dear Leader?

Kim, 65, has been reported to have lived with four women, none of whom has ever shown up in public -- raising intense speculation about the succession in the world's only communist dynasty.

President Roh Moo-Hyun is paying the second visit by a South Korean leader to Pyongyang, but while Kim made a surprise appearance Tuesday to greet Roh on arrival, South Korean First Lady Kwon Yang-suk had no counterpart, depriving eager media of a first glimpse of Kim's wife.

Kwon instead toured reading and lecture rooms in Pyongyang's imposing Grand...