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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s influential sister has been appointed to the country’s top government body, the official KCNA news agency reported Thursday. Kim Yo Jong, a key adviser to her brother, was promoted to a position on the State Affairs Commission, amid a raft of changes approved by …

The powerful sister of North Korea’s leader has criticized South Korean President Moon Jae-in and threatened a “complete destruction” of relations hours after Moon said South Korea’s growing missile capabilities will serve as a “sure deterrence” against North Korean provocations. Moon made the comments after South Korea’s first successful test …

With the health of North Korea’s Kim Jong-un subject to furious speculation and a flurry of media reports, questions are inevitably being raised over who would take over control of the hermit kingdom if his reign were to be cut short. The 36-year-old has worked tirelessly in the nine years …