SEOUL, South Korea — Senior North Korean officials, including the only sister of the North’s leader, arrived in South Korea on Friday, starting a three-day trip that is to include a meeting with South Korea’s president, the highest-level inter-Korean contact in more than a decade.
The 22-member government delegation, including Kim Yo-jong, the sister of Kim Jong-un, whose family has ruled North Korea since its founding seven decades ago, traveled by private plane from the North.
Although the delegation is officially led by Kim Yong-nam, who as president of the Presidium of the North Korean Parliament is the North’s nominal head of state, it is Ms.