JEJU: North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un has threatened Seoul with fiery destruction, but as a remote graveyard on a resort island shows, he has closer links to the South than he might like to admit.
Many of her family, including Kim's maternal great-grandfather, are buried on Jeju, their overgrown graves a stark contrast to Pyongyang's Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, where the embalmed bodies of Kim's father Kim Jong Il and grandfather Kim Il Sung lie in state. The Kim dynasty bases its claim to power on Kim Il Sung's role as a guerrilla fighter driving out Japan and winning Korea its independence in 1945.
Kim Jong Un's ancestors on his mother's side left Jeju for Japan before later settling in North Korea. Kim's mother grew up in the Japanese port city of Osaka, but her family moved to North Korea in the 1960s as part of a decades-long repatriation programme by Pyongyang. The Ko family answered the call, and lived a relatively normal life in the North until their eldest daughter caught the eye of the country's heir apparent.
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