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A column of smoke was rising Tuesday from a building in the North Korean town of Kaesong. It was the office that for almost two years had served as a liaison to ease tensions with South Korea. From Pyongyang they had ordered her to be blown up. A milestone of diplomatic rapprochement demolished in a few seconds . Four days ago, Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, already warned her: "The useless North-South relations office will soon be completely destroyed." Said and done.

Much has changed in the role of Kim Yo-jong since she was caricatured as the "discreet princess" who was holding the glass ashtray for her brother, smoker and dictator. She was another of the mysteries that enveloped North Korean secrecy . Little or nothing was known about her life. Not even her actual age. That's why the image of the ashtray was raised by all kinds of memes on social networks during a stop on the 70-hour train journey that took Kim Jong-un to the failed Hanoi summit to meet Donald Trump.

The truth is that the little sister of the North Korean leader had already appeared a year earlier representing his country at the Winter Olympics, which were held in South Korea. An image that monopolized all the foci because she was the first member of the family dynasty to visit her neighbors since the end of the civil war in 1953. They all interpreted that gesture as an intention to ease the tense relations between both nations.

In diplomatic circles, there was talk that Kim Yo-jong was the "friendly face" of the regime. At least that was the most visible part that Pyongyang wanted to reveal. From the United States they already had her name listed as one of the most trusted North Korean officials of the supreme leader who fed the propaganda agencies covering the human rights abuses of her country. That was her job in a political career that began in 2014 as deputy director of the Propaganda and Agitation department of the Workers' Party.

After some time away from the front line, Kim Yo-jong reappeared in the media in April after false rumors of his brother's poor health. Kim Jong-un was killed again prematurely and Kim Yo-jong was singled out as his successor . Since then, she has not dropped from the high profile. Now as deputy director of the party's United Front Department, who manages relations with South Korea. Its prominence has been increasing . Also her aggressive dialectic.

CUTTING OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INCREASE IN VOLTAGE

She was the first to warn that communications with her southern "enemy" would be cut. And so it happened on June 9. A couple of times a day from Seoul they called the office located in Kaesong. The phone stopped ringing and this Tuesday it exploded along with the rest of the office . For Kim Yo-jong this was a step in the determination to completely close all means of contact with South Korea. A response to what he called a "critical flyer-sending campaign by deserters."

Kim was referring to members of Fighters for Free North Korea , an organization of North Korean defectors, who have spent years sending balloons with anti-Pyongyang proclamations across the border from the South Korean border city of Paju. They criticize Kim Jong-un for his nuclear ambitions and his lack of respect for human rights. "They are human scum, mongrel dogs," is what these deserters called the dictator's sister.

Last weekend, Kim Yo-jong also threatened military action against the neighboring country . "I feel like it's time to break up with the South Korean authorities," Kim said. Who ended his statement picked up by the state agency with a forceful phrase: "The garbage must be thrown in the garbage dump." A day later, he added that he had ordered the army to prepare to occupy the demilitarized border zone , which was created after the Korean War to maintain a buffer zone between the two countries.

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