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The sister of Kim Jong-un has issued a chilling threat to South Korea, as she stepped out without the North Korean leader. Kim Yo-jong confirmed that North Korea has moved new military units into “firing positions” along the border as she visited areas being reinforced by soldiers, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

She said: “Our military leadership underlined the need to make those rogues aware that our new firepower units have taken their firing positions.”

Jin Yong-sung, chairman of South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, described Kim Yo-jong’s threat as “intolerable” and ordered the military to “respond with firm resolve”.

This comes amid rumours of her brother’s death, which were dispelled by KCNA after they released photos of the dictator at a public event. They showed Kim and his daughter visiting a clothing and footwear exhibition in Pyongyang on Monday.

They were published after a US-based Chinese dissident claimed on social media that he’d suffered a brain haemorrhage and died in a hospital in Beijing, though no evidence for this was given.

She accused the country of firing warning shots and broadcasting alerts repeatedly at the border since August, after North Korean soldiers breached the border.

She said: “A grave situation is prevailing along the southern border due to the reckless behaviour of the ROK military gangsters.”

Kim said North Korea was contemplating “deploying more tactical strike means along the southern border as a preemptive and suppressive measure to deal with contingency, and of resuming the loudspeaker broadcasting against the ROK.”