{"id":18115,"date":"2014-12-04T19:12:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T19:12:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-12-04T19:12:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T19:12:26","slug":"Kim-Jong-Un-s-sister-moves-close-to-center-of-power-in-North-Korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=18115","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong Un’s sister moves close to center of power in North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hmmm this is very interesting. Could this be the beginning of the uniting of the Koreas?<\/strong> When women get together, you know that anything can happen! In a good way! South Korea is already run by a woman, President Park Geun-hye. Could North Korea be next?<\/p>\n

Kim Yo Jong cuts a contrasting figure to her pudgy older brother, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Thursday, state media said the younger Kim, 27, had taken a senior position in the ruling Workers’ Party, confirming speculation she had moved closer to the center of power in the secretive state.<\/p>\n

It named her as a vice director alongside the head of the Propaganda and Agitation Department, which handles ideological messaging through the media, arts and culture.<\/p>\n

Kim Yo Jong’s title supports earlier reports from a North Korean defector group which said she may have taken a high-level role when Kim Jong Un recently disappeared from public view for more than a month, prompting speculation about his grip on power.<\/p>\n

South Korea’s intelligence agency later said Kim, 31, was likely to have had surgery on his left ankle. Kim has since reappeared, walking with a limp.<\/p>\n

Kim Yo Jong’s power has been likened to that of a prime minister, an unnamed South Korean intelligence source told the Seoul-based JoongAng Ilbo newspaper in April, even before her brother’s injury.<\/p>\n

Kim Yo Jong has featured in state propaganda since her brother took over the nuclear-capable country upon the death of their father, Kim Jong Il, in late 2011.<\/p>\n

Women in patriarchal North Korea rarely become high-ranking officials or military commanders.<\/strong> They do, however, receive military training.<\/p>\n

They are also vital to North Korea’s moribund economy. With many men engaged in state-appointed jobs in factories and bureaucratic departments, it is often women who turn to black market trading to earn the income most families need to survive.<\/p>\n

But for Kim Yo Jong, it is her family name and proximity to Kim Jong Un that supersedes any cultural norms.<\/p>\n

Source Reuters<\/em>
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