South Korean President Moon Jae-in will meet members of North Korea’s Olympic delegation on Saturday, including the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Reuters reported, citing the Blue House’s statement on Thursday. Moon will also attend a lunch with the North Korean delegation, his spokesman, Kim Eui-kyeom, told reporters. The location for the engagement has yet to be confirmed, according to a Blue House official.

Sister Kim Jong-Yin will come to South Korea as part of the DPRK delegation


The younger sister of the leader of the DPRK Kim Jong-un Kim Ye Jeong joined the high-ranking delegation of North Korea, which on February 9 will arrive in South Korea to participate in the opening of the Olympics in Pyeongchang. This was stated by the representative of the Ministry of South Korea.

Recall that earlier, Pyongyang had notified Seoul of its intention to send a high-ranking delegation headed by North Korea's formal chairman of the North Korean parliament Kim Yong Nam. Then it was not told who would accompany him. Now it turned out that among the three accompanying there is a younger sister of Kim Jong-un Kim Yo-jong, who recently began to climb up the hierarchy. According to some experts, Kim Yong-joon now heads the department in the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, which controls the state security, the police and the prosecutor's office.

The participation of Kim Yo Jong, who is known for having direct access to Kim Jong-un, significantly increases the chances that representatives of Seoul and Pyongyang will hold important, not formal negotiations in South Korea. Previously, the president of the South, Moon Zhe Ying, has already stated that he intends to personally communicate with the head of the DPRK delegation Kim Yong Nam. It can not be ruled out that Moon will meet with Kim Yo Jong.

Note that in South Korea to participate in the Olympics-2018, which starts on February 9, arrived a large group of North Korean cheerleaders, journalists, as well as Taekwondo. Earlier in South Korea, the North Korean art collective "Samzhen" drove on a ferry "Mangenbo-92", which will hold a series of tours in the South.