Photos released Wednesday showed Kim Jong Un's middle-school-aged daughter in a prominent position at a banquet for military top brass in Pyongyang. Analysts say it's the clearest signal yet from Kim that he is positioning Kim Ju Ae as his heir.
The congratulatory scenes were laid out across the front page of the Rodong Sinmun newspaper on Wednesday morning, ahead of an expected military parade to mark the anniversary.
The report didn’t provide the girl’s name or age, identifying her only as Kim’s “respected daughter” — the first time that adjective has been applied to her, an apparent upgrade from the previous “beloved.” But she is believed to bewhom retired National Basketball Association star Dennis Rodman held as a baby during a visit to Pyongyang in 2013.
While North Koreans — who have been told from birth that the Kim family hails from a vaunted blood line and that it is only right that the family should rule — might accept a fourth-generation ruler, it remained to be seen whether the highly patriarchal system would accept a female ruler, Cheong said.
Kim Jong Un was announced to the military as his father’s successor when he was only 8 years old, according to his aunt.
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