Kim Yo-jong, sister of North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, now ‘de facto second in command’
Ruler cedes some powers to sibling, according to Seoul, who will be responsible for relations with US and South Korea
The influential younger sister of the North Korean ruler, Kim Jong-un, has become his de facto second-in-command with responsibility for relations with South Korea and the US, according to Seoul’s spy agency.
In what is beginning to resemble a sibling dictatorship, Kim Yo-jong is helping to run the regime with the blessing of her brother, according to Ha Tae-keung, a South Korean MP who sits on the national assembly’s intelligence committee.
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