North Korea promotes Kim Jong Un’s sister as he vows to boost economy

The ruling Workers' Party Central Committee names Kim Yo Jong as the full department director at the key party congress.

North Korea ruling party promotes Kim Jong Un's younger sister

Kim Yo Jong — long considered one of her brother's closest lieutenants — was promoted to department director within the ruling party's apex central committee.

Kim Yo-jong likely to take bigger role in external affairs following party promotion, politburo return

Kim Yo-jong, the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, has consolidated her standing within the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea after being promoted to department director and reinstated as an alternate member of the Politburo during the ongoing party congress, observers said Tuesday. The North's state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Tuesday that Kim Yo-jong had been among 17 department directors of the party’s new Central Committee at the first plenary meeting of the Nin

By The Korea Herald