Kim Jong-un's aunt Kim Kyong-hui appears safe from fate of husband

The powerful aunt of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un remains a part of the regime's inner circle even after the execution last week of her husband, the No 2 of the isolated nation.

Kim Kyong-hui, daughter of North Korea's founder Kim Il-sung, has been named as one of the funeral committee members for a senior party official, a prestigious position, according to the country's state media.

Her husband Jang Song-thaek was executed last week.

Her name appeared in a dispatch alongside top officials in a committee for Kim Kuk-thae, the chairman of the Control Commission of the ruling Workers' Party, who died on Friday.

Her name was placed sixth in a sequence that listed more than 50 funeral committee members, according to news agency KCNA. The funeral committee list is one of few indications of North Korean officials' status.

Some analysts said she may be spared her husband's fate because she was one of the few blood relatives of young leader Kim's grandfather, Kim Il-sung.