NK leader’s aunt, feared dead, reappears

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Usually when someone vanishes in NorthKorea they've faced a firing squad or wound up in a gulag... but not this time!

So when Kim Jong-un’s aunt vanished from public life six years ago, it was assumed she had been purged from the totalitarian regime’s ranks or had found herself facing a firing squad. Given her husband had also been executed, rumours were rife she had met the same fate.

According to the Pyongyang government-controlled Korean Central News Agency , the name of Kim Kyong-hui was included in a list of top North Korean officials who watched a performance marking Lunar New Year’s Day with Kim Jong-un at a theatre in the capital city on Saturday. Kim Kyong-hui, 73, was once an influential figure in North Korea as the only sister of late leader Kim Jong-il, the father of Kim Jong-un. She had initially kept a low profile during the early part of her brother’s rule, but Kim Kyong-hui later frequently accompanied him on his inspection trips after he suffered a stroke in 2008.

Kim Kyong-hui , the younger sister of former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, with other delegates during the 2010 Workers' Party meeting in Pyongyang.One-time North Korean leader Kim Il-sung flanked by his son Kim Jong-il and daughter Kim Kyong-hui in the garden of their home in Pyongyang in 1963.Days after Jang’s execution, Kim Kyong-hui’s name was mentioned in a KCNA dispatch as a member of a funeral committee for another top official.

Jang Song Thaek, Kim Jong-un's uncle and the husband of Kim Kyong-hui, was executed by the regime in 2013.Jang Song-Thaek attending court in December 2013 shortly before his execution. Picture: AFPSome North Korea monitoring groups in Seoul and foreign media outlets had speculated Kim Jong-un had his aunt executed or purged, or she died of health problems. Outside experts said Kim Kyong-hui had long suffered from liver and heart problems and high blood pressure.

 

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This is the man that needs to look up n see the missiles rain down on him,

Il's twin?

That's not her that's a clone!!!!

Their plastic surgery technology is probably quite advance too 🤣

Doesn’t this sort of thing just show we shouldn’t give any weight whatsoever to so called western experts on NK?

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