‘Front runner’ to be North Korea’s next supreme leader makes international debut in China
By Josh Smith
Seoul (Reuters) -Sorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un brought his young daughter to Beijing on his first public trip abroad, and provided more speculation that the family could be a potential successor in the dynasty rule on the nuclear armed state.
The secret North Korea never explained his name or age, but South Korean intelligence officials believe that he was the daughter of Ju AE by former American basketball player Dennis Rodman. In 2013, Rodman spent time with Kim’s family and described him to keep him as a baby.
One night, while he stepped into the armored train they traveled from Pyongyang to Beijing, he was seen just behind his father, where Kim Jong Un attended a great military parade in Wednesdy, Japan’s Pacific, staged by China to commemorate the Second World War in the Pacific.
“Currently, Ju AE is the leader of North Korea as the next leader of North Korea,” US -based Stimson Center, North Korean leadership. He said. “North Korea’s next leader or core elite, such as the practical protocol experience that he needs to serve him well.”
Madden was first accompanied by Kim Jong Un, except for North Korea – an experience that neither his father nor his strong aunt have.
“Foreign leadership and other elites are having a valuable experience to greet and interact,” he said.
Analysts, Kim Jong Un’s father Kim Jong Il said there was no evidence that he was accompanied by overseas trips. In the 1950s, Jong Il made foreign trips with Kim Il Sung, the founder of his father North Korea.
The state media, which was strictly controlled by North Korea, had nothing about Kim Jong Un’s children until the JU AE was first shown to the world accompanying his father to the release of a large intercontinental ballistic missile in 2022.
There are still very little known about who other children.
South Korea’s intelligence agency, despite the questions of whether it can rise to the top of the male -dominated dynasty, it sees Ju AE as the most likely successor.
Approximately 13 years old, Ju AE, in May, participated in an increasingly higher profile events, including diplomatic outputs at a Russian Embassy event.
“The scope of public appearance has certainly expanded from military -related sites to political and economic events for years,” said Rachel Minyoung Lee, another researcher of Stimson Center. He said. “This is part of a successor campaign, it will definitely help with this effort, because Kim Ju AE will be seen as the first output of the international stage.”
Düşün Even though it is early to say that this visit was Kim Jong Un’s successor, it can still help expand its horizons, Lee Lee added how the North Korean media would give a better idea of Ju AE in China.
(Reporting by Josh Smith; additional reports by Ju-min Park and Jack; Editing by Michael Perry)
