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By Lee Jong-Heon, EastAsiaIntel.com

SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s younger sister Kim Yo-Jong has surged to the top of the country’s hierarchy and is expected to serve as the No. 2 leader, the position held play by her late uncle, sources and analysts here say.

The secretive country has recently unveiled Kim’s official title, calling her a deputy director of the Workers’ Party.

When the state media reported on Kim Jong-Un’s Nov. 27 on-spot guidance tour in Pyongyang, they said he was accompanied by a group of senior officials, including “vice department directors of the Workers’ Party Central Committee, Kim Yo-Jong and Kim UI-Sun,” among others.

[Related: During Kim’s absence for medical reasons, his sister manages state affairs, Oct. 1]

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