Kim Yo-jong is the younger sister of Kim Jong-un, the Supreme Leader of North Korea, and reportedly one of his closest aides. As first vice-department director of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) Propaganda and Agitation Department, she is said to be in charge of managing her brother'...
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Kim Yo-Jong, North Korean political official and sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un. As a senior official in the state propaganda ministry, she did much to craft her brother’s public persona. She was widely believed to be among the most powerful
Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, was broadly involved in a statement blaming South Korea for the recent shooting of a South Korean official after she was angered by public discussion of North Korea’s human rights situation by UN officials, Daily NK has learned. ...
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his 12-year-old son. Kim Yo Jong, in their view, is simply expected to stabilize the country’s affairs until the son can take over. In their eyes, Kim is playing the traditional role of an “empress dowager” who takes control of state affairs until a younger prince comes of age. ...
"Spectators broke into cheers and applause as players of the north and the south of Korea entered the stadium, led by the flag of the Korean Peninsula amid the playing of the song 'Arirang,'" said the KCNA. "Kim Yong Nam, Kim Yo Jong and President Moon Jae In and his wife all stood...
While Yo Jong has issued colorfully harsh statements in the past, her latest outbursts seemed particularly significant considering her brother’s inability to discipline his eating, drinking and smoking habits. Big bro’s “lifestyle” suggests he’s “not destined to live to a ripe o...
Like her brother, not much is known about Kim Yo Jong. He is believed to be in his early 30s and is one of Kim Jung Un’s closest and most trusted advisers. “She is, as we can best say, a very capable and highly qualified member of the North Korean leadership, and she is not...
For Kim, his nine-member entourage included Kim Yo Jong, the younger sister of the DPRK leader and the first vice department director of the Central Committee of the ruling Worker's Party of Korea (WPK), and Kim Yong Chol, vice chairman of the WPK Central Committee. ...