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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is married, North Korean state television said for the first time Wednesday, ending weeks of speculation about the mysterious woman he has been spotted with at several public events.

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The state broadcast said Kim toured an amusement park with his wife, “comrade Ri Sol-ju.” The report did not say when the newlyweds got married.

“While a welcoming song was playing, our party and people’s supreme leader, Marshal Kim Jong-un, came out from a ceremony of the completion (of a “pleasure ground”) with wife, Ri Sol-ju,” the report said.

The couple toured the amusement park’s mini golf course, dolphin viewing area and a wading pool. The report said Kim was particularly impressed with how the wading pool was in “good harmony with the surrounding environment.”

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Photographs released from the tour showed the late 20-something Kim with the same attractive short-haired woman whom South Korean intelligence had previous identified as former North Korean pop star Hyon Song-wol, an ex-girlfriend of Kim’s.