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Is Kim Jong-un’s sister North Korea’s true leader?

The Story

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The Court of Kim Jong-Un

There is a lot we don't know about the court at the top of North Korean life, says Richard Lloyd-Parry. In some ways it works well to think of it as a royal court, something like the Court of Henry VIII or even the advisors and conciliaries around a kind of mafia boss," he adds. The remarkable thing about the Court of Kim of Kim Jong-un is that so many of the most important people are women.

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