The once-influential aunt of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made her first public appearance in more than six years, state media showed Sunday, dispelling rumors that she had been killed or taken her own life after the execution of her powerful husband, Kim's onetime No. 2.
Kim Kyong Hui attended a concert with the North Korean leader, his wife and other officials to mark the Lunar New Year holiday Saturday at the Samjiyon Theater in Pyongyang, the North's official Korean Central News Agency reported.
Kim Kyong Hui is the only daughter of North Korea's founder, Kim Il Sung, and the widow of Kim Jong Un's uncle and former right-hand man, Jang Song Thaek. The KCNA report published a picture of the aunt, bespectacled and wearing a black Korean traditional hanbok, sitting next to Kim Jong Un's wife, Ri Sol Ju.