North Korea: King jong-un carries his baby daughter in public. Will he be the successor to the throne?
The North Korean leader took his daughter to a meeting with rocket scientists in his second public appearance, where state media called her Kim Jong-un's 'most beloved' daughter, deepening the outside debate over whether is somehow named as the successor to the "Throne" of the country.
The daughter, believed to be Kim's second child, named Ju Ae and aged about 9 or 10, was first introduced to the outside world last weekend in state media photos of her watching the launch of the Northern ICBM the previous day with his parents and other senior officials.
She was shown walking hand-in-hand with Kim in front of a huge missile loaded onto a launch truck and observing missile drills.
Upstate media outlets mentioned her for the second time on Sunday, saying she and Kim took group photos with scientists, technicians, officials and other workers involved in what was billed as the test launch of her ballistic missile. Hwasong-17. KCNA described her as Kim's "most loved" or "precious" daughter, a more honorific title than the previous description of Kim's "beloved" daughter in its Nov. 19 message. She also posted a series of photos showing the little girl in a long black coat with a black fur collar, holding her father's arm. The child's mother, Ri Sol Ju, was not visible in any of the photos of her daughter.
Ankit Panda, an expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said that Kim Ju Ae next to her father "while being celebrated by the technicians and scientists involved in the last launch of the intercontinental missile, confirms the idea that this is the beginning of his positioning as a potential successor”.
“The state media underscores her father's love for her, which I think underscores it further. Finally, both of his first public appearances were in the context of strategic nuclear weapons, the crown jewels of North Korea's national defense capabilities. It doesn't seem like a coincidence to me." Nothing in the North Korean media is a coincidence and the words used seem to indicate some sort of investiture, or introduction into the country's political world.
Currently women are having a great weight in North Korean politics, or rather in the family of Kim jong-un. Kim's sister, Kim Yo Jong, appears in public and makes statements of a political nature, even very radical ones. He recently declared South Korea's leaders "idiots" .
Kim Yo Jong
After her first public appearance, South Korea's spy service told lawmakers it had assessed that the child portrayed is Kim's second child, who is about 10 years old and named Ju Ae. The National Intelligence Service said her appearance matches reports that she is taller and older than other girls of the same age. The National Intelligence Service said his presentation appeared to reflect Kim's willingness to protect the security of future generations of North Korea in the face of a standoff with the United States.
South Korean media had already speculated that Kim had three children – born in 2010, 2013 and 2017 – and that the first was a boy while the third was a girl. The unveiled daughter is most likely the little girl retired NBA star Dennis Rodman saw during his trip to Pyongyang in 2013. After that visit, Rodman told a British newspaper that he and Kim spent a "moment of relaxing by the sea” with the leader's family and holding Kim's daughter, named Ju Ae, in her arms.
North Korea has made no mention of Kim's other two children. But speculation about whether the eldest child is a boy has led some experts to question how a daughter could be Kim's successor, given the deeply male-dominated and patriarchal nature of North Korean society. Kim is a third generation member of the family that has led North Korea for more than seven decades; his father and grandfather successively ruled the country before he inherited power in late 2011.
“We were told that Kim has three children, possibly including a boy. If this is true, and if we assume that the son – which has not yet been revealed – will be the heir, is Ju Ae really Kim's most 'valuable', succession-wise?” Soo Kim said , a security analyst at RAND Corporation, based in California. "I think it's too early to draw conclusions."
According to the analyst, Kim Jong-un might think that the presentation of his daughter is an effective distraction to condition Washington, Seoul and others to live with the North Korean nuclear threat, since "Ju Ae's spectacle seems to eclipse the intensification of the gravity of the North Korea's nuclear and missile threat". He added that, by having his daughter parade, Kim Jong-un could also be telling his people that nuclear weapons are the only guarantee for the country's future.
During the group photo session, Kim Jong-un called the recently tested Hwasong-17 a "major strategic force entity" and ordered officials to further build the nuclear missile.
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