{"id":142125,"date":"2026-09-03T19:02:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/142125\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T19:02:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:02:56","slug":"north-koreas-next-ruler-kim-jong-uns-daughter-seouls-spies-say-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/142125\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea\u2019s next ruler? Kim Jong-un\u2019s daughter, Seoul\u2019s spies say"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Korea<\/a> has never named her, confirmed her age or acknowledged her as Kim Jong-un\u2019s heir. Yet South Korea<\/a>\u2019s spy agency says the evidence is now unmistakable: his daughter Kim Ju-ae<\/a> has \u201ceffectively\u201d become the successor-in-waiting.<\/p>\n

The assessment, delivered in a closed-door briefing to the National Assembly\u2019s intelligence committee, was shared with journalists by Youn Kun-young of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe NIS sees Kim Ju-ae as having effectively entered the stage of being designated as successor,\u201d he said, referring to South Korea\u2019s National Intelligence Service.<\/p>\n

Youn added that the agency believed Ju-ae\u2019s increasingly frequent appearances in state media formed part of a deliberate effort to imprint \u201cher image as a leader on the North Korean people\u2019s minds\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"KimKim Ju-ae (wearing pink) appears with her father Kim Jong-un and other officials at the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery in Pyongyang on August 14. Photo: KCNA \/ ReutersThe assessment adds weight to Seoul\u2019s view that Kim Jong-un<\/a> is preparing his daughter to extend the Kim dynasty\u2019s hereditary rule into a fourth generation.Kim Ju-ae made her public debut in November 2022<\/a>, when North Korean state media released photographs of her accompanying her father to the test launch of a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Korea has never named her, confirmed her age or acknowledged her as Kim Jong-un\u2019s heir. Yet South…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[136,29215,74,15230,71181,446,447,141,1577,31,27627,3239,34,129,33,454],"class_list":["post-142125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-north-korea","tag-beijing","tag-cuba","tag-donald-trump","tag-hanoi","tag-hwasong-17","tag-kim-il-sung","tag-kim-jong-il","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-kim-ju-ae","tag-korea","tag-kumsusan-palace-of-the-sun","tag-national-intelligence-service","tag-north-korea","tag-pyongyang","tag-south-korea","tag-workers-party-of-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}