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The sister, North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the most dangerous woman in the world, Sung-Yoon Lee

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The sister, North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the most dangerous woman in the world, Sung-Yoon Lee

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-280) and index

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individual biography

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genealogical tablesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The sister

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1389274587

Responsibility statement

Sung-Yoon Lee

Sub title

North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the most dangerous woman in the world

Summary

Recent years have seen the dramatic rise of a young woman called Kim Yo Jong in North Korea. Stomping the world stage from the shadows of her secretive state, she is creating headlines and fevered speculation about her role and her future. She is the sister of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un and, as her murderous regime's chief propagandist, internal administrator and foreign policymaker, she is the most powerful woman in North Korea's history. Cruel but charming, she threatens and insults foreign leaders with sardonic wit. A princess by birth with great expectations for her macabre kingdom, she was brought up to believe it is her mission to reunite North Korea with the South, or die trying. She's pretty, she seems demure, she is cold, and she's incredibly dangerous. The Sister, written by Sung-Yoon Lee, a scholar of Korean and East Asian studies and a specialist on North Korea, is a fascinating, authoritative account of the mysterious world of North Korea and its ruling dynasty - a family whose lust for power entails torturing and starving its people into submission, killing dissenters, and threatening nuclear war

Table Of Contents

The princess cometh -- The Mount Paektu bloodline -- Peninsular predominance: Pyongyang's ultimate mission -- All in the family -- The narcissistic psychopath father -- State secrets -- The apprentice years: 2007-2009 -- Funeral and rebirth -- The vile ventriloquist -- The Pyongyang games -- The blue house visit -- A Korean comedy of errors -- Who Trumped whom? -- The ascent: mounted Paektu princess - Weaponizing food: a family practice -- Twisted sister -- They call her 'devil woman'

Target audience

adult

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North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the most dangerous woman in the world

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