BOOK REVIEW: The Sister (The Extraordinary Story of Kim Yo Jong, The Most Powerful Woman in North Korea)

By Sung-Yoon Lee, MacMillan Publishers International Ltd., London, hardcover, 305 pp.

By: Shim Jae Hoon

Living in Seoul just an hour’s drive from the North Korean border - armed to the teeth with nuclear bombs and intercontinental missiles that can reach all parts of the United States - can certainly be unnerving, to say the least. But it often feels doubtful how much South Koreans, indeed the rest of the world, appreciate the danger pose…