{"id":73835,"date":"2025-09-03T13:40:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T04:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/03\/north-korea-kim-jong-uns-daughter-makes-international-debut-fuelling-succession-speculation"},"modified":"2025-09-03T13:40:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T04:40:29","slug":"north-korea-kim-jong-uns-daughter-makes-international-debut-fuelling-succession-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73835","title":{"rendered":"North Korea: Kim Jong-un\u2019s daughter makes international debut fuelling succession speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Ju-ae\u2019s arrival in Beijing ahead of China\u2019s victory day military parade show she is her father\u2019s preferred successor, experts say<\/p>\n<p>The appearance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a>\u2019s daughter in China ahead of Xi Jinping\u2019s \u201cvictory day\u201d parade in Beijing has added to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/23\/symbolism-or-succession-clues-kim-jong-uns-daughter-debut-sparks-speculation-over-north-koreas-future\">speculation<\/a> that she is being groomed to become the first female ruler of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photos released by North Korean state media showed Kim Ju-ae, who is believed to be in her early teens, stepping off her father\u2019s heavily armoured train in the Chinese capital, where she was greeted by Chinese officials at the start of her debut on the international stage.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/03\/north-korea-kim-jong-uns-daughter-makes-international-debut-fuelling-succession-speculation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Ju-ae\u2019s arrival in Beijing ahead of China\u2019s victory day military parade show she is her father\u2019s preferred successor, experts sayThe appearance of Kim Jong-un\u2019s daughter in China ahead of Xi Jinping\u2019s \u201cvictory day\u201d parade in Beijing has added to sp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"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":[41,50,421,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73835","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\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73836,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73835\/revisions\/73836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}