Seoul: As per the reports are to be believed, Kim Yo Jong will become the first female leader in the extremely male-dominated political scenario in North Korea. Kim Jong Un has reportedly given his sister Kim Yo Jong partial authority to oversee “general state affairs” in order to ease the North Korean leader’s workload.

As per reports suggests that the Supreme Leader might be in a coma and that is why his sister has taken over. And while Yo Jong is just replacing her brother, she is often considered to be more dangerous than him. It was Kim Yo Jong who was behind the blowing up of the symbolic Joint Liaison Office between North and South Korea in Kaesong in June.

The move is symbolic as blowing up a liaison office sends a powerful message. And spearheading the change is the tough Yo Jung. Kim Yo Jong as the world’s first female dictator is a terrifying idea though, especially since she has made it abundantly clear that she intends to carry forward her brother’s legacy as the Supreme Leader. Yet, for many around the world, it has been a little difficult to look past her gender.

Women politicians have always been viewed with a differential lens of bias whether the woman in question will be able to fit the shoes of her male predecessors. Perhaps, that is why great female politicians of the world like Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel and Hilary Clinton have had to fight twice as hard and scream twice as loud to make their voices heard – to merely be considered as equal with their male counterparts.