Was talking to my dad about North Korea randomly and he mentioned Kim Yo Jong. He mentioned that he thought that she seems a much more ruthless and confident leader than Kim Yong Un and had thoughts that maybe she is running things behind the curtains.
I don’t know anything about her and don’t know that much about the DPRK to fully know so I’m asking here.
All I know is that she’s the deputy director of the information and publicity branch of the WPK. That’s a pretty influential post in any ML organisation.
But at lot of this “ruthless sister dictator” thing came from Americans staring vacantly at pictures and guessing. She is thinner and less smiley than her brother, so American Hollywood trope brain immediately went “she’s cold, calculating and evil”.
We probably have a resident DPRK expert in here somewhere, but if not it might be a nice hobby to develop. Consider starting at the WPK newspaper: http://www.rodong.rep.kp/en/