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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is believed to be having an affair with a recently married woman who used to be a pop star in the isolated country.

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Kim has been spotted in public with Hyon Song-wol, former member of Bochonbo Electronic Music Band, whose popularity reached its zenith (in North Korea) with the 2005 single Excellent Horse-Like Lady.

The band’s other spectacularly named hits include Footsteps of Soldiers, I Love Pyongyang,She is a Discharged Soldier and We are Troops of the Party.

The Korea Joongang Dailyreports that the pair were romantically attached previously, but Kim’s father, Kim Jong-il, disapproved and made them break it off.

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Hyon is believed to have then married a North Korean army officer and disappeared from public view.

However, in March, she performed, heavily pregnant, in Pyongyang at an event marking International Women’s Day.