Footage showed the daughter, in a white puffy coat and red shoes, walking hand in hand with Kim Jong Un past a huge missile on a delivery truck and watching a weapon soar into the air.
Posted Date – 11:15 AM, Sun – 11/27/22
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This undated photo provided by the North Korean government on Nov. 27, 2022 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, and his daughter, center right, with soldiers involved in a recent launch. -17 ICBM at an undisclosed location in North Korea.Photo: Associated Press
Seoul: The North Korean leader brought his daughter to a meeting with missile scientists during her second public appearance, where state media called her Kim Jong-un’s “most beloved” child, fueling debate over whether she is poised to become Kim’s successor.
The daughter of Joo-ae, believed to be Kim Jong-un’s second child, believed to be about 9 or 10 years old, was first revealed last weekend in state media photos showing her with her parents and other seniors watching North Korea launch an intercontinental ballistic ballistic the day before Missile officer.
Footage showed the daughter, in a white puffy coat and red shoes, walking hand in hand with Kim Jong Un past a huge missile on a delivery truck and watching a weapon soar into the air.
North Korean state media mentioned her for the second time on Sunday, saying she and Kim Jong-un posed for a photo with scientists, technicians, officials and other workers involved in what North Korea called a test of the Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile.
KCNA described her as Kim Jong Un’s “most beloved” or “precious” child, which is more dignified than her previous description of “(Kim Jong Un’s) beloved” child in a Nov. 19 report. It also released a series of photos showing the daughter, wearing a long black coat with a black fur collar, on her father’s arm.
Some photos showed the two of them standing among a line of uniformed soldiers in front of a large missile atop a delivery truck. Other footage showed Kim’s daughter clapping or talking to her father amid cheers from the crowd.
Her mother Li Xuezhu, who was not pictured in any photos on Sunday, looked more mature than when she was unveiled a week ago.
“It’s certainly astonishing. The photo of Kim Joo-ae standing next to her father as technicians and scientists involved in the latest ICBM launch will support the idea that this is the beginning of her being positioned as a potential successor, “Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
“I think the state media’s emphasis on her father’s love for her further underscores this. Finally, her two first public appearances were in the context of strategic nuclear weapons — the crown jewel of North Korea’s defense capabilities. It’s not a coincidence,” Panda said.
After her first public appearance, South Korean intelligence agencies told lawmakers the girl in the photo was assessed to be Kim Jong-un’s second child, about 10 years old, named Ju Ae.
The National Intelligence Service said her looks were consistent with information that she was taller and bigger than other girls her age. It also said her unveiling appeared to reflect Kim Jong-un’s determination to keep future generations of North Koreans safe in the face of a standoff with the United States.
South Korean media previously speculated that Kim Jong-un has three children – born in 2010, 2013 and 2017 – the first being a son and the third a daughter. The unveiled daughter is likely to be the child retired NBA star Dennis Rodman saw during a trip to Pyongyang in 2013.
After that visit, Rodman told the Guardian that he and Kim had spent “relaxing time by the sea” with Kim’s family and that he was holding Kim’s youngest daughter, Ju-ae.
North Korea made no mention of Kim’s reported two other children. But speculation that his eldest son will be a son 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 Jong Un is the third generation of a family that has ruled North Korea for more than seven decades, with his father and then grandfather ruling the country before he took power in late 2011.
“We’re told that Kim has three children, possibly including a son. If that’s true, and if we assume the boy – who has not been identified – will be the heir, then from an inheritance standpoint, Joo Ae is really Kim’s most precious right?” said Soo Kim, a security analyst at the RAND Corporation in California. “I think it’s too early to draw any conclusions.” She said Kim Jong-un may have viewed his daughter’s unveiling as an effective distraction while making Washington, Seoul and others acclimatized to the North Korean nuclear threat because “Zhu Ai The spectacle seems to overshadow the growing threat of North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats.” She added that by showing off his daughter, Kim Jong-un may also be trying to tell his people that nuclear weapons are the only guarantee of the country’s future.
In a speech at the photo session, Kim called the recently tested Hwasong-17 “a great entity with strategic strength” and ordered officials to further build the country’s military capabilities to make it “more absolute and irreversible”.
North Korea’s Hwasong-17 launch was part of a series of missile tests it said were meant to sound a warning to U.S.-South Korea military exercises it considered an invasion exercise.
Cheong Seong-Chang, an analyst at South Korea’s private Sejong Institute, said Kim Jong Un could not make his son his successor if he believed he lacked leadership skills. Cheong said that Kim Jong-un may be trying to prevent potential resistance in choosing his daughter as a fourth-generation leader, so he will likely take her to participate in a successful ICBM launch event to help the public’s loyalty to him smoothly extend to his. daughter.
“When a king has many children, it is natural for him to make his most beloved child his successor,” Cheong said. “Kim Joo-ae is expected to occasionally appear at Kim Jong-un’s public events and undergo training for his successor.” The revelation of young Ju Ae came as a surprise to foreign experts, as both Kim Jong-un and his father, Kim Jong-il, were reported in state media for the first time as adults was mentioned in.
However, Chung said Kim Jong Il saw Kim Jong Un as his heir when his son was 8 years old. Cheong cited conversations he had with Kim Jong-un’s aunt and her husband who defected to the United States.
South Korea’s spy agency says Ju Ae is about 10 years old, although the fact that she was reportedly born in 2013 may have something to do with the country’s age calculation system, which often adds a year or two to people’s age.