Kim Yo-jong is the younger daughter of late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and the younger sister of the current North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Educated first in Switzerland and later in North Korea, she showed leadership skill and also an interest in political career early in her life. Possibly from the age of twenty, she started playing a junior role in the ruling Korean Workers’ Party. At twenty-one, as her father, the Supreme Leader of North Korea, suffered two strokes, she began to play a more proactive role in making sure that her favorite brother, youngest of her father’s three sons, succeed him. Even after her goal was achieved, she kept a very low profile, not receiving any official mention until in her late twenties, yet continuing to work silently in different important positions. Currently, she is the Director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department and an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.