SEOUL (AFP): North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister warned at the weekend that a Korean liaison office would soon be seen 'completely collapsed'. On Tuesday, Pyongyang reduced it to rubble.
SEOUL : North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister warned at the weekend that a Korean liaison office would soon be seen"completely collapsed". On Tuesday, Pyongyang reduced it to rubble.
Officially she is only an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, but in a weekend statement carried by the official KCNA news agency, she referred to"my power authorised by the Supreme Leader, our Party and the state". Her existence was barely known to the wider world until his funeral, when she was seen standing right behind Kim Jong Un on state television, looking tearful and ashen-faced.Yo Jong has"been very faithful in promoting him as the supreme leader, burnishing his domestic and international image, and helping him practically as his de facto chief of staff," said Katharine Moon, a politics professor at Wellesley College in the United States.
"Jong Un and Yo Jong spent much of their lonely childhood overseas together -- I think this is when they developed something that is similar to comradeship, on top of sibling love," he told AFP.The North has never had a woman leader but speculation swirled over Yo Jong as a potential successor in the event of the death of her brother, after he was absent from public view for weeks earlier this year.
Every detail of her visit was closely watched, from the clothes she wore to the bag she was carrying and even her handwriting.
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