Kim’s sister back in the public eye at mass games

Show of might: Participants performing in the mass games’ artistic and gymnastic display in Pyongyang. — AFP

SEOUL: The powerful younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attended a public event in Pyongyang for the first time in more than 50 days, casting further doubt on media speculation he had ordered her to lay low over the failed nuclear summit with Washing­ton.

North Korea’s state media yesterday showed Kim Yo-jong (pic) clapping aside her brother, his wife and other top officials at the 150,000-seat May Day Stadium where thousands of gymnasts, dancers and flip-card-wielding spectators worked in precise unison to perform “The Land of the People”.