Kim Jong Un's sister ends her trip to the Olympics

Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un

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published 11 February 2018

Kim Yo Jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, returns to Pyongyang Sunday at the close of her visit to the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

While in South Korea, Kim was subject to intense scrutiny, her pleasant personal manner presenting a marked contrast to her family's brutally dictatorial regime. Kim is the director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of her brother's government, and some Western media outlets came under fire for what critics deemed too-favorable coverage of the "political princess":

Kim Yo Jong is the first member of the Kim family to visit South Korea since her grandfather took power in North Korea. She was accompanied by North Korean officials and invited the South Korean president to visit Pyongyang for direct talks.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.