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Not long ago, even the most loyal observers of North Korea’s politics knew nothing about Kim Yo-jong.
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The younger brother of dictator Kim Jong-un and the youngest son of the reclusive country’s late supreme leader, Kim Jong-il, had spent his life in the shadows until he appeared at his father’s funeral in 2011.
Less than a decade later, his triumph on the world stage at the Winter Olympics in South Korea demonstrated his meteoric rise through Pyongyang’s often brutal leadership ranks.
Recent major developments suggest that he has grown that power and is likely to become the heir to the leadership of North Korea—regardless of whether his brothers like him or not.
In mid-2020, when the world was gripped by the worsening Covid-19 pandemic, Kim Yo-jong blew up a building.
The Korean Liaison Office on the northern side of the demilitarized zone, a neutral passage between the two countries, was leveled by the North Korean military at his behest.
“I feel it is time to cut ties with the South Korean authorities,” he said days before blowing up the building, saying he had ordered the building to “completely collapse”.
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