Kim Jong-un’s younger sister emerges from the shadows in rare show of her rising power in despot’s regime
KIM Jong-un’s sister has mocked South Korea as a "frightened dog barking" as the North let rip intense live-fire military drills.
Kim Yo Jong dismissed Seoul’s security ministers' "strong concern" over her country’s war games as a "truly senseless act".
Dubbed North Korea’s Ivanka Trump, Ms Kim, has been rising rapidly within the North's power structure and is believed to be in charge of shaping her brother's public persona.
She has kept a low profile until last year, when she was hand-picked to head up Pyongyang's propaganda department last year.
Believed to be aged 32, she is the daughter of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il.
She is said to have had a close relationship with brother Kim Jong-un from an early age.
Both studied together in Switzerland between 1996 and 2000 with each depending on the other for company and support during those isolated years.
It is believed she went on to further her education at the Kim Il-sung Military University and then computer science at the Kim Il-sung university.