Kim Jong-un's aunt reappears, six years after purge rumours

Appearance of Kim Kyong-hui next to the North Korean leader at a performance puts paid to talk of execution

Kim Jong-un's aunt has appeared in public for the first time in more than six years, ending speculation that she had been purged or executed after helping her nephew establish himself as North Korea's leader.

The official newspaper of North Korea's ruling party, the Rodong Sinmun, showed Kim Kyong-hui seated next to Kim and his wife, Ri Sol-ju, at a performance to mark the lunar new year at a theatre in Pyongyang on Saturday.