From missiles to moisturiser: Kim Jong-un visits North Korean cosmetics factory

Kim tours Pyongyang facility accompanied by his wife, Ri Sol-ju, and younger sister, Kim Yo-jong, in fresh display of genteel side

Kim Jong-un may or may not be a regular user of exfoliant scrub and moisturiser, but the North Korean leader was every inch the attentive consumer when he swapped ballistic missiles for bars of soap during a visit to a cosmetics factory.

While James Mattis, the US defence secretary, was saying Washington would never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea, Kim was offering “field guidance” at the weekend to factory workers in the latest display of his more genteel side, according to the official KCNA news agency.

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