North Korea leader firming up status of daughter as successor, Seoul spy agency says
By Ju-Min Park and Jack
Seoul (Reuters) – South Korean deputies referring to the country’s spy agency on Thursday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s visit to China after accompanying him as a possible successor to strengthen the status of his daughter Kim Ju Ae.
Ju AE stayed at the North Korean Embassy and avoided a public spotlight during the visit to Beijing, but only to be on a overseas trip with his father, the regime as the possible successor of the regime, “enough to build a narrative”, he said.
“Kim Ju Ae’s status was strengthened as a possible successor by showing it from time to time, but it enabled him to establish overseas experiences, but not to appear in public activities.” He said.
In addition, the North Korean officials, during a trip to China and who wiped the traces to not reveal the biological knowledge of who and his daughter. South Korea’s spy agency told deputies, this, a special plane to carry the garbage and the couple in the North Korean Embassy, he said.
At the beginning of this month, Kim made an unprecedented trip to Beijing for a large -scale multilateral meeting and followed a military parade with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Kim also said that South Korea was no longer an isolated country and tries to bring back relationships with China to describe bilateral meetings with Xi and Putin.
According to MPs, the South Korean Intelligence Agency believed that the economic ties between Beijing and Pyongyang would inevitably expand after the meeting between Xi and Kim through unofficial trade.
(Ju-Min Park, Jack by who reporting; Editing by Ed Davies)
