FOCUS: North Korea's Kim may use South to boost influence of younger sister

North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un is expected to step up provocations against the South in an apparent bid to consolidate the status of his younger sister and close aide, Kim Yo Jong, as the country's effective No. 2 figure.As announced, Pyongyang on Tuesday blew up a liaison office between the two Koreas in the nation's border city of Kaesong, in retaliation for Seoul's failure to prevent defectors from scattering over the border leaflets highly critical of Kim's reign.The demolition of the symbol of inter-Korean reconciliation came weeks after the North's state-run media reported Ki Yo Jon…READ FULL ARTICLE