Sister of North Korean Leader Arrives in South Korea for Highly Symbolic Trip
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Sister of North Korean Leader Arrives in South Korea for Highly Symbolic Trip
8, 2018
SEOUL, South Korea — Senior North Korean officials, including the only sister of the North’s leader, arrived in South Korea on Friday, starting a three-day trip
that is to include a meeting with South Korea’s president, the highest-level inter-Korean contact in more than a decade.
On Friday evening, the North Korean visitors joined foreign dignitaries, including Vice President Mike Pence
and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics being held in the South Korean town of Pyeongchang.
Ms. Kim and another member of the North Korean delegation, Choe Hwi, were blacklisted by the United States Treasury in January 2017 over allegations of involvement in "serious human rights abuses
and censorship activities." Ms. Kim is believed to be a first vice director of the ruling Workers’ Party’s Propaganda and Agitation Department, which is responsible for censorship of newspapers and broadcast media.
Ms. Kim, believed to be 30, is the first immediate member of the North’s ruling family to set foot in South Korea since the 1950-53 Korean War.
After ignoring Mr. Moon’s repeated invitations to the Olympics, Mr. Kim in a New Year’s Day speech surprisingly proposed sending North Korean athletes to the Games — while at the same time claiming to have a "nuclear button" on his desk
that could launch missiles capable of reaching the continental United States.
8, 2018
SEOUL, South Korea — Senior North Korean officials, including the only sister of the North’s leader, arrived in South Korea on Friday, starting a three-day trip
that is to include a meeting with South Korea’s president, the highest-level inter-Korean contact in more than a decade.
On Friday evening, the North Korean visitors joined foreign dignitaries, including Vice President Mike Pence
and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics being held in the South Korean town of Pyeongchang.
Ms. Kim and another member of the North Korean delegation, Choe Hwi, were blacklisted by the United States Treasury in January 2017 over allegations of involvement in "serious human rights abuses
and censorship activities." Ms. Kim is believed to be a first vice director of the ruling Workers’ Party’s Propaganda and Agitation Department, which is responsible for censorship of newspapers and broadcast media.
Ms. Kim, believed to be 30, is the first immediate member of the North’s ruling family to set foot in South Korea since the 1950-53 Korean War.
After ignoring Mr. Moon’s repeated invitations to the Olympics, Mr. Kim in a New Year’s Day speech surprisingly proposed sending North Korean athletes to the Games — while at the same time claiming to have a "nuclear button" on his desk
that could launch missiles capable of reaching the continental United States.