Speculation is mounting that Kim Jong Un’s daughter Kim Ju Ae could be next in line to lead North Korea.
There have been a series of signs that Kim Ju Ae, Kim Jong Un’s daughter, will succeed the North Korean dictator.
This picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency last year shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his daughter Ju Ae inspecting the test-fire of the new Hwasongpho-18 ICBM at an undisclosed location. First introduced to the world in 2022, when she accompanied her father to the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, analysts have long said Ju Ae is the equivalent of a North Korean “princess”.
It is unclear exactly how old she is. Former NBA star Dennis Rodman visited the North in 2013 and claimed he’d met a baby daughter of Kim’s called Ju Ae.Kim’s wife, former star singer Ri Sol Ju, first appeared in state media 2012 and has been regarded as one of the most high-profile women in the isolated, deeply patriarchal nation.
This suggests she is “almost definitely” being groomed as the next leader of the nuclear-armed country, Ahn Chan-il, a defector-turned-researcher who runs the World Institute for North Korea Studies, told AFP. North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un inspects a newly built Gwangcheon Poultry Factory with his daughter Ju Ae.
No woman has run the country before, but Ju Ae’s “belonging to the sacred Paektu bloodline of the Kim clan and the will of the current leader, if he is to make her his successor, will outweigh her gender,” Vladimir Tikhonov, professor of Korean Studies at the University of Oslo, said.
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