{"id":76346,"date":"2026-02-12T23:32:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/12\/kim-jong-un-daughter-future-leader-north-korea-south"},"modified":"2026-02-12T23:32:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:32:41","slug":"kim-close-to-naming-teenage-daughter-as-future-north-korean-leader-south-believes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76346","title":{"rendered":"Kim close to naming teenage daughter as future North Korean leader, South believes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s spy agency monitoring whether girl, believed to be 13, will appear at political conference this month<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s spy agency has told lawmakers it believes the teenage daughter of Kim Jong-un, the North Korean dictator, is close to being designated as the country\u2019s future leader, as Kim moves to extend the family dynasty to a fourth generation.<\/p>\n<p>The assessment by the national intelligence service (NIS) comes as North Korea is preparing to hold its biggest political conference later this month, where Kim is expected to outline his main policy goals for the next five years and take steps to tighten his authoritarian grip.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/12\/kim-jong-un-daughter-future-leader-north-korea-south\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea\u2019s spy agency monitoring whether girl, believed to be 13, will appear at political conference this monthSouth Korea\u2019s spy agency has told lawmakers it believes the teenage daughter of Kim Jong-un, the North Korean dictator, is close to being&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"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":[41,421,40,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-korea","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76346","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\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76347,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76346\/revisions\/76347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}