North Korea

Kim Jong Un’s arrival in China for the first ever multilateral meeting was always going to make headlines.

But when he was leaving the armored train, it was a wisely dressed girl who came out with an armored car who caught the attention of Korean observers: Kim Jo Aer, the daughter of the North Korean leader.

According to the South Korean spy, Miss Kim is the most likely successor to her father.

But the details – including its exact age – are thin on earth. So what do we know?

It was believed that Miss Kim had been the second with Kim Jong Una and his wife, Ri Sol-Ju for a number of years. The exact number and their order are by no means sure, but who is very secret to their family, only having introduced the wife to the public after they were married for some time.

Kim Jei Ae is their only child whose existence is confirmed by the country’s leadership. No other child was noticed in public.

News about its existence first emerged through an unlikely source: a basketball player Dennis Rodman who revealed the Guardian newspaper Back in 2013, he “spent his children’s Ju Ae” while traveling to a secret state.

Then it was heard little by November 2022, when she appeared next to her father when launching an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

By February next year, she performed on postage stamps and visited banquets for top officials – described as a “respected” daughter Kim Jong Una.

The “respected” adjective is reserved for the most revered North Korea. In the case of his father, he was called a “respected comrades” only after his future leader’s status was fixed.

The South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS) has provided a few additional details about the little girl at the same time According to the news agency AP.

They said she liked the riding, skiing and swimming, and was at a school in Pyongyang’s capital. They suggested that she was about 10 years old.

By January 2024, NIS came to another conclusion: that the little girl was the most likely successor to Kim Jong -un -although they noted that “many variables” still played, not least from the young age.

Since then, she has performed many times next to her father. Standing next to him at the launch of ICBM and military tips, she took the central stage and received military salutes from senior military commanders.

But on Tuesday, it is celebrated for the first time when it was seen outside North Korea, and the trip may even suggest that she could transfer her father.

Kim’s family, who has ruled North Korea since 1948, reports to citizens that they are originally from sacred blood, that is, only they can govern the country.

However, there are suggestions that at this moment she introduced her daughter to try to overcome the prejudices in a deeply patriarchal state, which the woman never headed.