Graveyard sheds light on Kim’s S. Korean heritage

Obscure history: A local man looking at tombstones bearing the Ko family name at a remote area on the resort island of Jeju. — AFP

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.

At a cemetery in a hard-to-find corner of South Korea’s Jeju island, there are 13 tombstones bearing the Ko family name – Kim’s relatives through his mother, Ko Yong-hui.