Influential aunt of N. Korea leader makes first public appearance in 6 years

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An analyst says Kyong-hui reappearance suggests she has regained an influential position. FMTNews

Kyong-hui sitting near North Korean leader during Lunar New Year celebrations.

She had largely disappeared from public view since 2013, after Kim Jong-un ordered the execution of her husband, Jang Song-thaek, seen as the second most powerful man in the North at the time. Kyong-hui and her husband were once a power couple that formed a kind of regency in the political world of the North behind its young and mercurial leader, who succeeded his father in December 2011.

 

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