Chosunilbo: Kim Jong-il 'Has Mistress, Daughter in Tokyo'
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has a mistress and a daughter named Mieko in Tokyo, the Monthly Chosun reports. The magazine said Mieko buys gifts for her father and visits North Korea on Kim's birthday every year. Kim's "secret lover" is in her early 50s and was a dancer with a troupe of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan when she met Kim during a visit to Pyongyang. They later had a child, the Monthly Chosun reported. Now in her late 20s and living in Tokyo, Mieko is "pretty and well-dressed, though not as beautiful as her mother, and looks affluent," the magazine said quoting a Korean-Japanese businessman. He described her as amiable and said she got on well with her half-brother Kim Jong-nam. The two are said to be exchanging emails...Japanese police keep an eye on mother and daughter out of concern for their safety, the monthly said