Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was confirmed to have taken the post of director of the general affairs department of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), according to state media Saturday. Kim was promoted to a party department chief at the WPK's plenary meeting Monday held in the midst of the ninth party congress that concluded a weeklong run Wednesday, but details of her official title were not disclosed at that time. But the North's state media called her "director of the General Affairs Department of the WPK Central Committee" for the first time in its Saturday report, listing her as one of the major party cadres and military commanders who received a new type of sniper rifle from the North's leader as "special gifts." The North's leader met with major leading cadres and military commanding officers at the headquarters building of the WPK the previous day and gave the "new-generation" sniper rifle to each of them, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). Kim Yo-jong, formerly the vice director of the party's propaganda and agitati