Promotion further consolidates family’s power as leader says nation’s nuclear weapons are a ‘powerful deterrent’North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has promoted his sister Kim Yo-jong to the politburo – the nation’s top decision-making body. How has North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme progressed this year? In January, the US treasury blacklisted Kim Yo-jong along with other North Korean officials over “severe human rights abuses”. “Ri can now be safely identified as one of North Korea’s top policy makers,” said Madden. Donald Trump has previously said the United States would “totally destroy” North Korea if necessary to protect itself and its allies.

Source: The Guardian October 08, 2017 05:46 UTC