{"id":50472,"date":"2022-11-23T15:43:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T06:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/23\/symbolism-or-succession-clues-kim-jong-uns-daughter-debut-sparks-speculation-over-north-koreas-future"},"modified":"2022-11-23T15:43:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T06:43:37","slug":"symbolism-or-succession-clues-debut-of-kim-jong-uns-daughter-sparks-speculation-over-north-koreas-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50472","title":{"rendered":"Symbolism or succession clues? Debut of Kim Jong-un\u2019s daughter sparks speculation over North Korea\u2019s future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reveal of Ju Ae raises questions over whether Kim, who is in his 30s and has battled poor health, is starting to think about his successor<\/p>\n

Kim Jong-un\u2019s carefully crafted image as a man of the people, armed with nuclear weapons, came full circle at the weekend with his daughter\u2019s surprise appearance<\/a> at the launch of a long-range missile.<\/p>\n

Images showing Kim holding the hand of the young girl eclipsed the test-firing of a Hwasong-17, the regime\u2019s biggest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) to date<\/a>, and sparked speculation about the future of the dynasty that has ruled North Korea<\/a> for more than seven decades.<\/p>\n

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Reveal of Ju Ae raises questions over whether Kim, who is in his 30s and has battled poor health, is starting to think about his successorKim Jong-un\u2019s carefully crafted image as a man of the people, armed with nuclear weapons, came full circle at the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,421,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50473,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50472\/revisions\/50473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}