Kim's sister back in public eye at North Korea's mass games

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SEOUL, South Korea - The powerful younger sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a public event in Pyongyang for the first time in more than 50 days, casting further doubt on media speculation that he had ordered her to lay low over the failed nuclear summit with Washington.

North Korea's state media on Tuesday showed Kim Yo Jong clapping aside her brother, his wife and other top officials at the 150,000-seat May Day Stadium, where thousands of gymnasts, dancers and flip-card-wielding spectators worked in precise unison to perform "The Land of the People."

Kim Yo Jong is a senior official of North Korea's ruling party and is believed to be her brother's closest confidant.

South Korea's conservative Chosun Ilbo newspaper last week cited an unidentified source in reporting that Kim Jong Un had ordered his sister to lay low following the collapse of his summit with Trump in February over what the Americans described as excessive North Korean demands for sanctions relief in exchange for only a partial surrender of its nuclear capabilities.

In a statement issued Tuesday by an unidentified foreign ministry spokesman, North Korea accused the United States of betraying the Singapore agreement and causing the breakdown in Hanoi by demanding that the North unilaterally surrender its nuclear weapons.

Although North Korea has previously banished or executed scapegoats to atone for major political flops, experts doubted the recent reports, saying such extreme punishments were unlikely unless Kim Jong Un was abandoning negotiations with the United States.

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