North Korea's first lady Ri Sol-ju has curtailed the state watchdogs' inordinate monitoring on women's growing interests in what to wear. The intelligence on the mandate has been confirmed by North ...

If Ri Sol-ju were not North Korea's first lady, one report would not have attracted as much attention as it has. In a normal country, rumor-level reports would be dismissed or confirmed.

Few details are known about Ri Sol-ju, the woman who in 2012 was identified as the wife of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Ri is thought to be 28 now and a mother to three children, according ...