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The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's influential aunt Kim Kyong-hui remains a part of the regime's inner circle, following the execution last week of her husband, the second most powerful man in the country. | |
Pyongyang announced late on Saturday that 67-year-old Kim Kyong-hui, the daughter of the country's founder Kim Il-sung, had been named as one of the funeral committee members for the ruling party, a prestigious position. | |
Kim's uncle Jang Song-thaek was executed last week just days before the second anniversary of the death of Kim Jong-il, the father of North Korea's current ruler. | |
Pyongyang said Jang was executed for attempting to seize power and for driving the economy "into an uncontrollable catastrophe". | |
After his downfall, the fate of Kim Kyong-hui had been unclear. North Korea's KCNA news agency said on Saturday that she had been asked to prepare the funeral of Kim Kuk-thae, chairman of the control commission of the ruling Workers' party. | |
The funeral committee list is one of few indications of North Korean officials' status. | |
Kim Kyong-hui is one of the few blood relatives of Kim Jong-il, who died in December 2011. North Korea will mark the second anniversary of his death on Tuesday. | |
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