Kim Jong Un's step-grandmother dies: South Korea

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SEOUL - The second wife of North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung - the step-grandmother of Pyongyang's current leader Kim Jong Un - has died, the South's government said on Wednesday (Dec 12). Ms Kim Song Ae, who was born in 1924, is said to have been sidelined in a power struggle decades ago and put under house arrest after failing to promote her own son Pyong Il - now the North's ambassador to the Czech Republic - as the founder's heir.

 

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