{"id":185621,"date":"2025-12-15T10:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/185621\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T10:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:49:10","slug":"kims-sister-spotted-with-suspected-luxury-chinese-foldable-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/185621\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim\u2019s sister spotted with suspected luxury Chinese foldable phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/kim-yo-jong?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kim Yo-jong<\/a>, the powerful sister of <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/north-korea?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">North Korea<\/a>\u2019s supreme leader, has been spotted with what appears to be a Chinese-made foldable phone.Images released by state media on Sunday showed Kim holding the phone in her right hand during a trip to a hospital opening alongside her brother, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/kim-jong-un?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kim Jong-un<\/a>.Although the brand name cannot be seen in the picture, the phone closely resembles the Chinese brand <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/honor?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Honor<\/a>\u2019s \u201cMagic\u201d line, advertised as \u201cthe world\u2019s thinnest foldable smartphone\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The V3 model of the phone sells for around US$1,379 \u2013 well out of range of the average North Korean, who analysts say typically earn up to US$3 a month in state-run industries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A worker on a production line holds an Honor Magic 8 smartphone at a factory in Shenzhen in October. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cfc55730-6593-4ec1-b168-ed181fdfa2eb_e524e619.jpg\" title=\"A worker on a production line holds an Honor Magic 8 smartphone at a factory in Shenzhen in October. Photo: AFP\"\/>A worker on a production line holds an Honor Magic 8 smartphone at a factory in Shenzhen in October. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Kim\u2019s family is known for their love of gadgets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister of North Korea\u2019s supreme leader, has been spotted with what appears to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3388,22328,26475,85,46,107434,107435,321,107436,16010,107438,107437,7379,4758,125,40130],"class_list":{"0":"post-185621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-chinese","9":"tag-foldable","10":"tag-honor","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-kim-jong-un","14":"tag-kim-yo-jong","15":"tag-mobile","16":"tag-nk-news","17":"tag-north-korea","18":"tag-nuclear-programme","19":"tag-pyongyang","20":"tag-smartphone","21":"tag-smartphones","22":"tag-technology","23":"tag-un-sanctions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}