Kim Jong-un makes rare appearance with wife at makeup factory

HE MAY be a warmongering despot, but he’s still got to keep the missus happy. Kim Jong-un has been seen in a rare public appearance with his wife in North Korea.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspects the Pyongyang Cosmetics Factory, as his wife Ri Sol-ju (right) looks on. Picture: AFP/KCNA via KNS

KIM Jong-un may be threatening nuclear war with the most powerful nation on Earth, but he has made sure his matrimonial relations are warm by taking his wife on a tour of a makeup factory.

The visit, pictures of which were distributed overnight by North Korea’s state-controlled press agency, was a rare public appearance for the dictator’s wife, Ri Sol-ju.

While we’re used to seeing the hermit kingdom’s supreme leader cheerily visiting bomb makers and giggling on the sidelines of ballistic missile tests, he eschewed those macho environments to enjoy the pastel colours and soft lighting of the Pyongyang Cosmetics Factory.

Kim Jong-un enjoys a few LOLs on a tour of the Pyongyang Cosmetics Factory with his wife, Ri Sol-ju (right), looking on dutifully. Picture: AFP/KCNA via KNS

Pyongyang Cosmetics Factory™ … Because you’re worth it. Picture: AFP/KCNA via KNS

The rogue nation’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said the business was the gold standard cosmetics factories and it got a big thumbs-up from Mr Kim.

The fact the factory boasts a mosaic of Mr Kim’s dad Kim Jong-il didn’t hurt their report card either.

In its inimitable style, the KCNA gushed: “All the places of the factory are associated with the love for the people by Kim Jong-il who made efforts to provide them with more highly civilised living conditions, Kim Jong-un said, calling upon the officials and employees of the factory to produce more cosmetics of good quality with world competitive power and provide the people with them, always remembering on-the-spot instructions given by Kim Jong-il on the day.”

Now we know where Kim Jong-un’s hair gets its body and bounce. Picture: AFP/KCNA via KNS

Maybe she’s born with it … maybe it’s Pyongyang Cosmetics Factory™. That’s Kim Jong-un’s wife on the far right. Picture: AFP/KCNA via KNS

Mr Kim was impressed not only by the variety of the cosmetics produced but the “very nice” packaging they were contained in.

He proudly proclaimed that the dream of “women who want to be more beautiful” had been “realised”. So, there you have it, ladies of North Korea. You can console yourself that although you may not have access to electricity, you can get your hands on some world class hand cream.

Mr Kim and his wife inspected the production control room, cosmetics, soap and cosmetics vessel shops, design room, cosmetics institute, cosmetics analytical laboratory, sci-tech learning space and sample room, nothing the building’s energy-saving technology.

The photo op comes on the heels of US defence secretary Jim Mattis’s visit to South Korea, where he repeated the threat of a “massive military response” to North Korea’s use of nuclear weapons.

US President Donald Trump is due to visit Seoul next month.