{"id":60956,"date":"2024-01-05T14:24:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T05:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/05\/kim-jong-un-daughter-heir-next-in-line-kim-ju-ae"},"modified":"2024-01-05T14:24:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T05:24:53","slug":"kim-ju-ae-likely-heir-to-north-koreas-kim-jong-un-says-souths-spy-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60956","title":{"rendered":"Kim Ju-ae likely heir to North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong-un, says South\u2019s spy agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intense speculation over future role for Kim Jong-un\u2019s daughter, who is reportedly 10, comes as North Korea fires shells near South Korean islands<\/p>\n<p>The young daughter of North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un is seen as her father\u2019s heir apparent, South Korea\u2019s spy agency has said, in the South\u2019s first such assessment on the girl.<\/p>\n<p>There has been intense outside debate and speculation about Kim Ju-ae, who is reportedly about 10 years old, since she made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/18\/north-korean-leader-kim-jong-un-reveals-daughter-at-ballistic-missile-test\">her first public appearance<\/a> in November 2022 when she watched a long-range missile test launch with her father.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/05\/kim-jong-un-daughter-heir-next-in-line-kim-ju-ae\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intense speculation over future role for Kim Jong-un\u2019s daughter, who is reportedly 10, comes as North Korea fires shells near South Korean islandsThe young daughter of North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un is seen as her father\u2019s heir apparent, South Korea\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,421,40,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60956","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60979,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60956\/revisions\/60979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}