Kim's rare outing with his wife: North Korean leader swaps nuclear bombs for nail varnish as he traipses around a cosmetics factory with First Lady

Kim Jong-un was visiting the production plant in Pyongyang with his secretive partner, Ri Sol-ju, and called on women in his country to be 'more beautiful'. His wife has been largely absent from photographs in 2017, and is believed to have given birth to their third child. However, she was spotted for the first time in months in July as the pair attended a banquet to celebrate the country's successful test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. The couple wed in 2009, in a marriage believed to have been arranged by his father, Kim Jong-il It comes as North Korea conducted mass evacuation drills in towns across the country as ‘preparation for war'. Earlier on Saturday, US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis issued a warning to North Korea that the country is no match for a decades-old American-South Korean alliance.