North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un has fathered third child: Reports

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has fathered another child, reports said Tuesday, after his wife Ri Sol-Ju dropped out of the public eye for several months.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has fathered another child, reports said Tuesday, after his wife dropped out of the public eye for several months.

(FILES) This undated file picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on October 19, 2015 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C), accompanied by his wife Ri Sol-Ju (L) in Pyongyang. (AFP)

First lady Ri Sol-Ju delivered the couple’s third child in February, the Yonhap news agency reported Tuesday, citing South Korean lawmakers who were briefed by the National Intelligence Service.

Ri had disappeared for an extended period last year, raising speculation that she could be pregnant.

News of the new arrival emerged as North Korea fired a ballistic missile over northern Japan.

According to previous intelligence reports from Seoul’s spy agency, Ri married Kim in 2009 and gave birth to their first child the following year, with their second born in 2013.

Kim is the third generation of his dynasty to rule North Korea, but little has been revealed about the country’s first family.

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman, following his trip to the North in 2013, has been the only source of information about the couple’s second child -- a baby girl named Ju-Ae.

Saying that he had held Kim’s daughter in his arms, Rodman described the North Korean leader as “a good dad” who has “a good family”.

South Korean intelligence reports have described Ri as coming from an ordinary family, with her father an academic and her mother a doctor.

She visited South Korea in 2005 as a cheerleader for her country’s squad in the Asian Athletics Championships.