Kim Yo Jong: North Korean leader’s increasingly powerful sister

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.  Kim Yo Jong is one of her brother's most trusted advisers and among the most powerful women in the isolated regime, but her public profile is mounting rapidly and she has been mooted as a potential successor.  The first statement issued in her name came only in March this year, but in recent days and weeks, she has been at the forefront of Pyongyang's denunciations of defectors in the South sending leaflets across the border.  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".  Born in 1988, according to the Unification ministry, Yo Jong is one of three children born to Kim's predecessor Kim Jong ...

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