SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's powerful younger sister has been reinstated to a key decision-making body, state media reported Sunday (April 12), marking her rise in the isolated nation.
Being one of her brother's closest advisers, Kim Yo-jong was reappointed an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee in a reshuffle of top officials Saturday, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.Analysts say Kim Yo Jong is believed to have been removed from the position last year after the collapse of a second summit between her brother and US President Donald Trump in Hanoi.
Kim Yo Jong acted as her brother's envoy to the South at the time of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in 2018, which ushered in a rapid diplomatic rapprochement on the divided peninsula. But she only began issuing statements of direct political significance under her own name last month, which analysts said highlights her central role in the North's political ranking.
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