{"id":21911,"date":"2020-08-21T13:57:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T04:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/21\/kim-yo-jong-sister-of-north-koreas-kim-jong-un-now-de-facto-second-in-command"},"modified":"2020-08-21T13:57:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T04:57:16","slug":"kim-yo-jong-sister-of-north-koreas-kim-jong-un-now-de-facto-second-in-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21911","title":{"rendered":"Kim Yo-jong, sister of North Korea&#8217;s Kim Jong-un, now &#8216;de facto second in command&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruler cedes some powers to sibling, according to Seoul, who will be responsible for relations with US and South Korea<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/apr\/20\/kim-yo-jong-the-sister-of-kim-jong-un-fast-becoming-his-alter-ego\">influential younger sister<\/a> of the North Korean ruler, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a>, has become his de facto second-in-command with responsibility for relations with South Korea and the US, according to Seoul\u2019s spy agency.<\/p>\n<p>In what is beginning to resemble a sibling dictatorship, Kim Yo-jong is helping to run the regime with the blessing of her brother, according to Ha Tae-keung, a South Korean MP who sits on the national assembly\u2019s intelligence committee.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/21\/kim-yo-jong-sister-of-north-koreas-kim-jong-un-now-de-facto-second-in-command\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruler cedes some powers to sibling, according to Seoul, who will be responsible for relations with US and South KoreaThe influential younger sister of the North Korean ruler, Kim Jong-un, has become his de facto second-in-command with responsibility fo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,421,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21912,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21911\/revisions\/21912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}