Kim Jong Un’s Daughter Seems At Army Parade, Sparks Succession Speak

Folks watch a TV display screen exhibiting a picture of Kim Jong Un and his daughter. (AFP Photograph)

North Korean chief Kim Jong Un attended a grand night time time parade organised by the nation’s navy, the place it showcased its largest variety of intercontinental ballistic missiles. ABC Information reported that the parade was held at Kim Il-Sung Sq., in central Pyongyang, with over 30,000 troopers collaborating. However the centre of consideration was Kim’s daughter, which ABC Information stated is nine-year-old Kim Ju Ae. The woman has been noticed in a number of essential navy associated occasions since November final yr, elevating speculations that she could also be the way forward for Pyongyang’s management.

“Kim Jong Un appears to be profiting from the worldwide consideration from the general public each time he brings his daughter to navy photograph ops,” Professor Park Gained-gon of Ewha Womans College, informed ABC News. “She additionally has a symbolic significance as the following era, as Kim Jong Un has been referring to its ICBM Hwasong-17 as a supply of well-being and happiness of the following era.”

Ju Ae even inspected a guard of honour alongside her father. The images had been additionally beamed reside by state tv throughout the broadcast of the navy parade.

For years, North Korean state media by no means talked about Kim’s kids, though Seoul’s spy company has stated he has three along with his spouse. They’re believed to be aged round 13, 10 and 6.

The one earlier affirmation of their existence had come from former NBA star Dennis Rodman, who claimed he met Ju Ae throughout a 2013 go to to North Korea.

A day earlier than the parade, she was additionally noticed at a lavish banquet at a navy barracks. Kim, his spouse Ri Sol Ju and the little woman visited the barracks to mark the seventy fifth anniversary of the founding of the Korean Folks’s Military (KPA), in accordance with a CNN report.

On the banquet, the woman was seated within the heart of the lead desk between Kim and her mom.

Three months in the past, on the launch of his strongest intercontinental ballistic missile, Kim had turned up along with his “beloved” daughter in tow.