Hong Il-chon
Hong Il-chon (, born 1942) was the first wife of Kim Jong-il. She was the daughter of a soldier who died during the Korean War. In the early 1960s, Kim Il-sung, father of Kim Jong-il, introduced her to his son and handpicked her to marry him in 1966. Her only daughter is named Kim Hye-gyong, born in 1968, and is the first child of Kim Jong-il. They divorced in 1969.
Propaganda and Agitation Department
Kim Jong-il had entered service of the PAD in February 1966. He was appointed the head of the PAD's Guidance Section of Culture and Art and Publication and Press section in September 1967 after a meeting in which Kim Il-sung criticized those who were associated with the Kapsan Faction Incident. In 1969, Kim Jong-il was promoted the deputy chief of the entire PAD. During this time he not only designed and issued party IDs and oversaw the handling of portraits of Kim Il-sung. In practice, Kim Jong-il ran the entire department because his nominal superior Kim Kuk-tae suffered from ill health and Yang Hyong-sop, who was tasked with ideological affairs, was engaged with science and education policy instead of propaganda. In September 1973, Kim Jong-il became the chief of the PAD, a position which he held until 1985.