What Are North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un's Surviving Brother And Two Sisters Doing?

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News.com.au: The secretive lives of Kim Jong-un's siblings

EVEN by North Korean standards, Kim Jong Un’s siblings lead incredibly secretive lives, here’s what they’re really getting up to.

From an Eric Clapton mega-fan to a sister who produces propaganda to an assassinated half brother, Kim Jong-un’s siblings have remained shadowy figures — even by North Korean standards.

But since Kim Jong-nam’s death in February, when two women lunged at him and smeared the banned VX nerve agent on him at Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur airport, the first family of North Korea has been thrown into the spotlight.

Reports soon circulated that Kim Jong-un had his half-brother, whom he had never met, killed because of fears a coup was being plotted to overthrow him.

Kim’s remaining siblings — Kim Yo-jong, Kim Sul-song and Kim Jong-chul — have remained mostly in the background since the death of their father, Kim Jong-il, in 2011. Kim Yo-jong, his sister, made international headlines earlier this month when she was voted to become an alternate member of the political bureau of the party’s central committee, the state’s Korean Central News Agency announced.

Here’s what we know about the siblings.

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WNU Editor: A neat summary on who is who in Kim Jong-un's family .... at least those who are still alive. On an interesting side note .... after all of these years details on Kim Jong-un's half sister Kim Sul-Song are still murky.

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