North Korea's young, new leader, Kim Jong Un, is -- as it turns out -- a married man, state TV reports today without comment.

The unexpected news comes in an aside as a news anchor on state TV simply notes that Kim had toured an amusement park with his "wife, comrade Ri Sol Ju."

Video shows the couple smiling broadly as they walk through the amusement park known as Rungna People's Pleasure Ground, the Associated Press reports.

There is no further information on his wife, such as when they were married.

Kim was named as head of the country in December following the death of his father, Kim Jong Il.

The latest news represents a sharp break from the almost total secrecy that surrounded the private life of Kim's father, and his grandfather, Kim Il Sung, the country's founder, who died in 1994.

But plenty of secrecy still abounds: His age, for example, remains a virtual state secret.