NK leader's sister confirmed to serve as director of ruling party's general affairs department

Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was confirmed to have taken the post of director of the general affairs department of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, according to state media Saturday. Kim was promoted to a party department chief at the WPK's plenary meeting Monday held in the midst of the ninth party congress that concluded a weeklong run Wednesday, but details of her official title were not disclosed at that time. But the North's state media called her

By The Korea Herald