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Kim Jong Un’s Sister Steps Up, Threatens South Korea With ‘Tragic Scene’

Emily Zanotti
Kim Jong Un’s Sister Steps Up, Threatens South Korea With ‘Tragic Scene’
Photographer: Luong Thai Linh/Pool via Bloomberg via Getty Images

Amid rumors, last month, that Kim Jong Un was either deceased or incapacitated and unable to maintain his control over North Korea, experts pointed to Kim Jong Un’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, as his natural successor.

Although Kim Jong Un is, apparently, alive and well enough to make ceremonial visits to ammunition factories, his sister does appear to have stepped into a more important — and decisive — role in her brother’s government, and, on Saturday, issued her first violent threat to North Korea’s longtime archenemy, South Korea.

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