CNN Opinion interviewed Sung-Yoon Lee about Kim Yo Jong’s remarkable rise in North Korea’s highly patriarchal society, and how much power she really wields beyond the tough talk.
When North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sat down to sign the guestbook at a space center last week as part of his momentous meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a young woman casually leaned over his shoulder to read the message. Among the assortment of mostly male officials stiffly clustered around the world leaders, she immediately stood out. The woman was Kim Yo Jong — younger sister of the North Korean leader and one of the country’s most important political advisors.
North Korea has politically appropriated this mythology into the Kim dynasty’s very source of legitimacy; that is, woven a fictitious narrative that Kim Il Sung is the savior and his progeny are also endowed with such supernatural powers. CNN: In 2018, Kim Yo Jong attended South Korea’s Winter Olympics with a message of peace.
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