• Kim Jong Un’s daughter seen as potential successor
  • Ju Ae gains protocol experience on first overseas trip
  • South Korean intelligence sees Ju Ae as likely successor

SEOUL, Sept 3 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un brought his teenage daughter to Beijing this week in her first public outing overseas, fuelling further speculation that she may be his potential successor in the family’s dynastic rule over the nuclear-armed state.

Secretive North Korea has never revealed her name or age, but South Korean intelligence officials believe she is the daughter identified as Ju Ae by former American basketball player Dennis Rodman

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    7 days ago

    Little bit of a mindfuck every time Dennis Rodman is credited as the source of some piece of information about North Korea. Weird world.

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    7 days ago

    Remember when he disappeared for a little while and everyone was talking about his sister taking his place?

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      Yes and?

      If Jong Un was to fall off a cliff right now, his sister would definitively take the reigns as his daughter is way too young.

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        6 days ago

        More likely from a heart attack than falling off a cliff. He is the only person that size in all of NK.