{"id":61122,"date":"2024-01-12T10:38:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T01:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/12\/speculation-that-kim-jong-uns-daughter-could-succeed-him-as-north-korean-leader-comes-of-age"},"modified":"2024-01-12T10:38:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T01:38:42","slug":"speculation-that-kim-jong-uns-daughter-could-succeed-him-as-north-korean-leader-comes-of-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61122","title":{"rendered":"Speculation that Kim Jong-un\u2019s daughter could succeed him as North Korean leader comes of age"},"content":{"rendered":"

For every theory suggesting 10-year-old Ju-ae is next in line, there is another saying she is being used to soften her father\u2019s image. But that changed this week<\/p>\n

It has been more than a year since the daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un<\/a> was seen in public for the first time<\/a>, accompanying her father at a missile launch in Pyongyang.<\/p>\n

Official photos showed a girl, aged around nine, wrapped up in a thick white coat, holding Kim\u2019s hand as they walked and talked at the capital\u2019s international airport, a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile primed for launch in the background.<\/p>\n

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For every theory suggesting 10-year-old Ju-ae is next in line, there is another saying she is being used to soften her father\u2019s image. But that changed this weekIt has been more than a year since the daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was seen…<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61122","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=61122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61123,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61122\/revisions\/61123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}