{"id":76519,"date":"2026-02-27T14:53:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T05:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/27\/north-korea-kim-jong-un-daughter-ju-ae-succession"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:53:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T05:53:53","slug":"north-koreas-most-beloved-child-what-the-key-congress-revealed-about-kim-jong-uns-succession-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76519","title":{"rendered":"North Korea\u2019s \u2018most beloved\u2019 child: what the key congress revealed about Kim Jong-un\u2019s succession plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many observers believe North Korean leader has decided daughter Kim Ju-ae will succeed him, but others say gender politics could block her path to power<\/p>\n<p>When North Korea\u2019s ruling party held a top-level meeting this month there were predictable boasts of unstoppable nuclear development and, more unexpectedly, a suggestion by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/kim-jong-un\">Kim Jong-un<\/a> that his country and the US \u201ccould get along\u201d \u2013 provided that Washington recognised North Korea as a legitimate nuclear power.<\/p>\n<p>But for many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a> watchers, the Workers\u2019 party congress \u2013 held over several days just once every five years \u2013 was a rare opportunity to speculate over the identity of the country\u2019s future leader.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/27\/north-korea-kim-jong-un-daughter-ju-ae-succession\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many observers believe North Korean leader has decided daughter Kim Ju-ae will succeed him, but others say gender politics could block her path to powerWhen North Korea\u2019s ruling party held a top-level meeting this month there were predictable boasts of&#8230;<\/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-76519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-kim-jong-un","category-north-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\/76519","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=76519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76520,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76519\/revisions\/76520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}