Tokyo — Kim Jong-un’s younger sister is set to become the first member of North Korea’s ruling bloodline to step on South Korean soil. Kim Yo-jong, who was promoted by her brother last year to the ruling party’s political wing, will attend the opening of this month’s Winter Olympics in the South Korean alpine town of Pyeongchang, according to South Korea’s Unification Ministry. The visit by a potential future leader of North Korea could be seen as a symbolic gesture by Kim Jong-un to show he is keen to maintain the current detente. But it is possible she is also being used as a propaganda tool to take the spotlight away from the celebrations in South Korea, and drive a deeper wedge between the governments in Seoul and Washington. The North Korean leader has already tapped Kim Yong-nam, the isolated regime’s ceremonial head of state, to lead the country’s delegation at the Olympics and attend the opening ceremony on Friday evening. Believed to be in her late 20s, Kim Yo-jong shares t...
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