Kim Yo Jong is the younger sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. She has made major announcements on the world stage, has been seen as a unifier among factions within the military and the party, and was cited as a likely successor to her brother.
Supreme Leader of the Democratic People's Republic of KoreaDeputy Department Director of the Publicity and Information Department of the Workers' Party of KoreaThe 35-year-old Kim Yo Jong has increasingly become the face of North Korea’s secretive and combative regime. The younger sister to dictator Kim Jong Un led the state delegation at the Winter Olympics in South Korea. She met then-President Donald Trump in 2018.
Her title is officially “deputy department director of the Publicity and Information Department,” but there has long been speculation that she is being set up for a bigger role.Kim Yo Jong, left, stands behind Kim Jong Un as he and Donald Trump sign documents that acknowledge the progress of the talks held between North Korea and the United States in 2018.
Whoever rules North Korea wields enormous power given the authoritarian kingdom’s nuclear weapons and constant threats to use them against the U.S. and its allies. But what is known about Kim Yo Jong?and Edward Howell, a lecturer in politics and international relations at the University of Oxford, about the princess and her rise through the ranks of North Korean politics.Howell: She’s the younger sister of Kim Jong Un and the youngest child of the former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.
Kim Yo Jong talks with Chung Eui-yong, South Korea's top national security adviser at the time, in Panmunjom, South Korea, in 2019. Howell: What’s interesting about Yo Jong is that she has risen through the ranks as a member of the junior elite in the Workers’ Party of Korea. She worked for the National Defense Commission — the most important institution for national defense.
Lee: Senior political figures avert their gaze whenever she makes an appearance. They don’t want to be noticed by her because she is such an oddity as a young, powerful person and sister of the supreme leader. There have been reports of her issuing random orders of execution of officials who get on her nerves. It’s hard to corroborate these reports, but they have come from many different regions inside the nation.
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