Why Kim Jong-un’s sister is putting the pressure on South Korea

In totalitarian North Korea, there is no higher authority than supreme leader Kim Jong-un. But when Pyongyang last week cut all communication with South Korea during the latest escalation of tensions between the neighbours, state media reports made no reference by name to the 36-year-old leader. Instead, Kim Yo-jong, the dictator’s younger sister, took centre stage.Determined to make the “betrayers and riff-raff” in the South pay for allowing North Korean defector activists to fly propaganda…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3088862/why-kim-jong-uns-sister-putting-pressure-south-korea