Kim Jong Un also visited the mausoleum where his father and grandfather, “eternal president” Kim Il Sung, lie in state. She is taking the place of their aunt, Kim Jong Il’s sister Kim Kyong Hui, who has not been seen in public since Kim Jong Un had her husband, Jang Song Thaek, executed in 2013. “Kim Yo Jong is very influential,” said Lim Jae-Cheon, a Kim family expert at Korea University in Seoul. As with many other figures in North Korea’s opaque leadership, little else is known about Kim Yo Jong. The two, together with oldest brother Kim Jong Chul, are full-blood siblings, the children of Kim Jong Il and his second wife, Ko Yong Hui.

Source: thestar October 09, 2017 01:30 UTC