Kim Yo-jong is a North Korean politician and diplomat serving as the Deputy Department Director of the Publicity and Information Department of the Workers' Party of Korea, or WPK.
24 Facts About Kim Yo-jong
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Kim Yo-jong served as an alternate member of the Politburo of the Workers' Party of Korea from 2017 to 2019, and again from 2020 to 2021.
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Kim Yo-jong is the youngest child of former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and his consort, Ko Yong-hui.
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Between 1996 and December 2000, Kim studied with her elder brothers at the Liebefeld-Steinholzli public school in Bern, Switzerland, under the assumed name "Pak Mi-hyang".
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In 2007, Kim Yo-jong was appointed as a junior cadre in the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, likely working under her father or her aunt, Kim Yo-jong Kyong-hui.
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Kim Yo-jong received much publicity during the funeral service for Kim Jong Il in December 2011, appearing alongside Kim Jong Un and leading groups of senior party officials in bowing at her father's casket.
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Kim Yo-jong did not appear in news reports of the time except in November 2012, when the Korean Central Television showed her accompanying Kim Jong Un and her aunt at a military riding ground.
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Kim Yo-jong received her first official mention in state media in March 2014, when she accompanied her brother in voting for the Supreme People's Assembly.
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Kim Yo-jong was named a "senior official" of the WPK Central Committee.
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Kim Yo-jong holds a vice-ministerial post, but her portfolio is not known.
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Kim Yo-jong regularly accompanies Kim Jong Un on his "field guidance" trips.
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Kim Yo-jong has been said to be the driving force behind the development of her brother's cult of personality, modeled after that of their grandfather, Kim Il Sung.
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Thae Yong-ho, a North Korean defector and former diplomat, said in 2017 that Kim Yo-jong organized all major public events in North Korea.
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Kim Yo-jong was said to have encouraged her brother to present an image of a "man of the people" with, for example, rides on fairground attractions and his friendship with basketball star Dennis Rodman.
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In October 2017, Kim Yo-jong was made an alternate member of the Politburo, only the second woman to be appointed to this decision-making body.
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On 9 February 2018, Kim Yo-jong attended the 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
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Kim Yo-jong delivered a personally written letter from Kim to Moon.
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Kim Yo-jong was elected to the Supreme People's Assembly during the 2019 North Korean parliamentary election, representing Killimgil.
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Kim Yo-jong was excluded again from the Politburo elected after the 8th Party Congress and demoted from the first deputy department director to deputy department director on 10 January 2021.
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Lee added that Kim Yo-jong had ordered the liaison office destroyed and was "ultimately responsible" for its destruction.
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In September 2021, it was reported that Kim Yo-jong was promoted to be a member of the State Affairs Commission of North Korea.
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In September 2022, in response to South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol's offer to economically aid the DPRK in exchange for denuclearization, Kim Yo-jong made a speech before the Assembly on behalf of her brother recommending that Yoon "shut his mouth", commenting that Yoon had "nothing better to say".
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Kim Yo-jong additionally blamed the South for introducing COVID-19 to the country, and threatened that if the virus returned to North Korea, she would retaliate against South Korea.
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Kim Yo-jong reportedly gave birth to a child in May 2015.